1When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,2and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,3then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes[1] and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.4Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.5He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.6The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.7The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.8You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today.9Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,10if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The offer of life or death
11Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.12It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it?’13Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so that we may obey it?’14No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so that you may obey it.15See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.16For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.17But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,18I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.19This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live20and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 30
English Standard Version
Repentance and Forgiveness
1“And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, (Le 26:40; De 4:29; De 11:26; 1Ki 8:47)2and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, (Ne 1:9; Isa 55:7; La 3:40; Joe 2:12)3then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. (Ps 126:1; Ps 126:4; Jer 32:37; Eze 34:13; Eze 36:24)4If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. (De 28:64; Ne 1:9)5And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. (De 28:63; Zep 3:19)6And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. (De 10:16; De 30:16; Jer 31:33; Jer 32:39; Eze 11:19; Eze 36:26)7And the Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.8And you shall again obey the voice of the Lord and keep all his commandments that I command you today.9The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers, (De 28:11; De 28:63; Zep 3:19)10when you obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
The Choice of Life and Death
11“For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. (Isa 45:19; Isa 48:16)12It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’ (Ro 10:6)13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’14But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.15“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. (De 11:26; De 32:47)16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[1] that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,[2] then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. (De 6:5; De 30:6)17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, (De 29:18)18I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. (De 4:26)19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, (De 30:1)20loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” (De 1:8; De 10:20; Ps 27:1; Ps 66:9; Joh 11:25)