And if you listen diligently to the voice of Jehovah your God and are certain to do all His commandments, which I am commanding you today, Jehovah your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth;

And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.

Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.

Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your animals, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock.

Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Jehovah will cause your enemies, who rise up against you, to be struck down before you; on one road they will come out against you, but on seven roads they will flee before you.

Jehovah will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses and in all your undertakings; and He will bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you.

Jehovah will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of Jehovah your God and walk in His ways.

And all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Jehovah's name, and they will be afraid of you.

And Jehovah will give you an excess of prosperity in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your animals and in the fruit of your ground, upon the ground which Jehovah swore to your fathers to give you.

Jehovah will open up to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give rain for your land in its season and to bless all your undertakings. And you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

And Jehovah will make you the head and not the tail, and you will tend only upward, and you will not tend downward, if you will listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today to keep and to do.

And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

But if you do not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and are not certain to do all His commandments and His statutes, which I am commanding you today, all these  ¹curses will come upon you and overtake you.

Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.

Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock.

Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

Jehovah will send to you cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke in all your undertakings which you do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the evil of your practices through which you have abandoned Me.

Jehovah will make a plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land which you are entering to possess.

Jehovah will strike you with consuming disease and fever and inflammation, and with burning heat and  ¹drought, and with blight and mildew; and these will pursue you until you perish.

And your sky, which is above your head, will be bronze, and the land, which is under you, iron.

Jehovah will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down upon you until you are destroyed.

Jehovah will cause you to be struck down before your enemies; on one road you will go out against them, but on seven roads you will flee before them. And you will be a source of shuddering to all the kingdoms of the earth.

And your corpse will become food for all the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away.

Jehovah will strike you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, scabs, and itching, of which you cannot be healed.

Jehovah will strike you with madness, blindness, and bewilderment of heart;

And you will be groping at noonday just as the blind man gropes in darkness; and you will not succeed in your ventures, but will only be oppressed and plundered always; and no one will save you.

You will get engaged to a woman, but another man will ravish her; you will build a house, but you will not dwell in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not  ¹partake of it.

Your ox will be slaughtered in your sight, but you will not eat of it; your donkey will be torn away from before you, but it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, but no one will rescue them for you.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while your eyes look on and fail from longing after them all the day, but you will be powerless.

A people whom you have not known will eat the fruit of your ground and all your hard-earned produce, and you will be only oppressed and crushed always.

And you will go mad because of the sight before your eyes which you will see.

Jehovah will strike you on the knees and legs with terrible boils, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

Jehovah will bring you and your king, whom you will have set over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have not known; and there you will serve other gods, mere wood and stone.

And you will become a source of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to whom Jehovah will drive you.

You will put out much seed in the field, but you will harvest little; for the locust will consume it.

You will plant vineyards and dress them, but you will not drink the wine nor gather the grapes; for the worm will devour them.

You will have olive trees in all your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives will drop off.

You will beget sons and daughters, but they will not remain with you; for they will go into captivity.

The locust will take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground.

The sojourner who is in your midst will rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him; he will be the head and you will be the tail.

And all these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes, which He commanded you;

And they will be with you and with your seed as a sign and wonder forever.

Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with rejoicing and gladness of heart on account of the abundance of all things,

You will serve your enemies, whom Jehovah will send out against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Jehovah will bring against you a nation from far away, from the end of the earth, like the eagle that swoops down, a nation whose tongue you will not understand,

A nation of fierce countenance, who will not regard an old man's person nor show favor to the young man.

And they will eat the fruit of your animals and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; they will not leave for you grain, new wine, or fresh oil, the offspring of your cattle or the young of your flock, until they cause you to perish.

And they will besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land; and they will besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which Jehovah your God has given you.

And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom Jehovah your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

The man who is delicately bred and luxurious among you, he will begrudge his brother, the wife of his bosom, and the remnant of his children whom he has left,

Not giving to one of them any of the flesh of his children whom he will eat; because nothing is left with him in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you in all your towns.

The delicately bred and luxurious woman among you, who does not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because of her luxuriousness and delicacy, she will begrudge the husband of her bosom and her son and daughter

The child who comes forth from her and her children whom she will bear; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and distress with which your enemy will distress you in your towns.

If you are not certain to do all the words of this law written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name — Jehovah your God —

Jehovah will make your plagues and the plagues of your seed extraordinary, great and persistent plagues, and malignant and persistent sicknesses.

And He will put upon you again all the illnesses of Egypt, which you were afraid of, and they will cling to you.

Also, every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, Jehovah will raise up upon you until you are destroyed.

And you will be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven in multitude; for you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.

And as Jehovah exulted over you to do you good and to multiply you, so will Jehovah exult over you to make you perish and to destroy you; and you will be torn off the land which you are entering to possess.

And Jehovah will scatter you among all the peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; and there you will serve other gods whom you and your fathers have not known, mere wood and stone.

And among those nations you will have no rest, nor will there be a resting place for the sole of your foot; but Jehovah will give you there a quivering heart and eyes failing with longing and a languishing soul.

And your life will be hung in suspense before you, and you will dread night and day; and you will have no assurance of your life.

In the morning you will say, Oh that it were evening! and in the evening you will say, Oh that it were morning! because of your heart's dread with which you will dread and because of the sight before your eyes which you will see.

And Jehovah will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way concerning which I said to you, You shall never again see it. And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies, as male slaves and as female slaves, but no one will buy you.

These are the words of the  ¹covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the  ¹covenant that He made with them at Horeb.

And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, You have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to all his land,

The great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

But Jehovah has not given you a  ¹heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear until this day.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothing did not wear out from upon you, nor did your sandal wear out from upon your foot;

You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you might know that I am Jehovah your God.

And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us in battle, and we slew them;

And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them in order that you may prosper in all that you do.

You are standing today, all of you, before Jehovah your God,  ¹your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, every man of Israel,

Your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner with you, who is in the midst of your camp, from the man who chops your wood to the man who draws your water,

In order to enter into a covenant with Jehovah your God and into His oath, which Jehovah your God is making with you today,

So that He may establish you today as His people and that He may be your God, even as He has spoken to you and even as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

However not with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath;

But I make it with him who is here today standing with us before Jehovah our God and with him who is not here with us today.

For you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of the nations whom you passed through,

And you saw their detestable images and their idols, mere wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them.

Beware that there is not among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turns away, even today, from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the  ¹gods of those nations; that there is not among you a  ²root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood;

And that when he hears the words of this  ¹oath, he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart;  ²to the ruin of the moist with the dry.

Jehovah will not be willing to pardon him; but rather the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy will fume against that man, and all the oath that is written in this book will settle on him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

And Jehovah will separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this book of the law.

And the following generation, your children who will rise up after you and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land and its diseases with which Jehovah has made it sick;

And that all its land is sulfur and salt, a burning waste; that it is not sown, nor does it sprout, nor does any vegetation come up in it; that it is like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in His anger and burning wrath —

Indeed all the nations will say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land? Why the burning of this great anger?

And they will say, It is because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out from the land of Egypt;

And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they had not known and He had not allotted to them.

And the anger of Jehovah burned against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book;

And Jehovah plucked them off their land in anger and in burning wrath and in great indignation, and sent them to another land, as they are this day.

The things that are  ¹hidden belong to Jehovah our God; but the things that are  ¹revealed, to us and our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

And  ¹when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you; and you bring them to heart while among the nations to whom Jehovah your God will drive you;

And you and your children return to Jehovah your God and listen to His voice, according to all that I am commanding you today, with all your heart and with all your soul;

Then Jehovah your God will turn your captivity and be compassionate to you, and He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom Jehovah your God has scattered you.

If any of you have been driven out to the ends of heaven, from there will Jehovah your God gather you and from there will He take you.

And Jehovah your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it; and He will do good for you and will multiply you more than He did your fathers.

And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, so that you will love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

And Jehovah your God will put all these  ¹oaths upon your enemies and upon them who hate you and who have persecuted you.

And you will turn and listen to the voice of Jehovah, and you will do all His commandments, which I am commanding you today.

And Jehovah your God will give you an excess of prosperity in all your undertakings, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your animals and in the fruit of your ground, for Jehovah will again exult over you for good as He exulted over your fathers;

If you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes written in this book of the law; if you turn back to Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

For this commandment which I am commanding you today, it is not too  ¹difficult for you, nor is it distant.

 ¹It is not in heaven that you should say, Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it?

Nor is it across the  ¹sea that you should say, Who will go across the sea for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it?

But the word is very near to you, even in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

See, I have put before you today life and good, and death and evil.

 ¹If you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and walk in His ways and keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, then you will live and multiply, and Jehovah your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to possess.

But if your heart turns and you do not listen, but rather you are drawn away in worship to other gods and serve them,

I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; your days will not be extended upon the land into which you are crossing over the Jordan to go and possess.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your seed may live,

In loving Jehovah your God by listening to His voice and holding fast to Him; for  ¹He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.