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nations where the LORD your God drives you, 11 “For this commandment which I command
2 and you return to the LORD your God and you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is
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obey His voice, according to all that I com- it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should
mand you today, you and your children, with say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and
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all your heart and with all your soul, that the bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’
LORD your God will bring you back from cap- 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say,
tivity, and have compassion on you, and gath- ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to
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er you again from all the nations where the us, that we may hear it and do it?’ But the
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LORD your God has scattered you. If any of word is very near you, in your mouth and in
you are driven out to the farthest parts under your heart, that you may do it.
heaven, from there the LORD your God will 15 “See, I have set before you today life and
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gather you, and from there He will bring you. good, death and evil, in that I command you
5 Then the LORD your God will bring you to the today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His
land which your fathers possessed, and you ways, and to keep His commandments, His
shall possess it. He will prosper you and mul- statutes, and His judgments, that you may live
tiply you more than your fathers. And the and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless
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LORD your God will circumcise your heart and you in the land which you go to possess. But
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the heart of your descendants, to love the if your heart turns away so that you do not
LORD your God with all your heart and with all hear, and are drawn away, and worship other
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your soul, that you may live. gods and serve them, I announce to you
today that you shall surely perish; you shall
not prolong your days in the land which you
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cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. I
call heaven and earth as witnesses today
30:4,5 The gathering of Jews out of all the against you, that I have set before you life and
countries of the earth will follow Israel’s final death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose
redemption. Restoration to the land will be in life, that both you and your descendants may
fulfillment of the promise of the covenant live; that you may love the LORD your God,
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given to Abraham (see Gen. 12:7; 13:15; that you may obey His voice, and that you may
15:18–21; 17:8) and so often reiterated by cling to Him, for He is your life and the length
Moses and the prophets.
of your days; and that you may dwell in the
land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to
30:6 the LORD...will circumcise your heart.
This work of God in the innermost being of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
the individual is the true salvation that grants Psalm 40:1–5
a new will to obey Him in place of the former
spiritual insensitivity and stubbornness (see To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Jer. 4:4; 9:25; Rom. 2:28,29).This new heart will waited patiently for the LORD;
allow the Israelite to love the Lord whole- I And He inclined to me,
heartedly and is the essential feature of the And heard my cry.
New Covenant (see 29:4,18; 30:10,17; Jer. 2 He also brought me up out of a
31:31–34; 32:37–42; Ezek. 11:19; 36:26).
horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
7 “Also the LORD your God will put all these
curses on your enemies and on those who hate 3 And established my steps.
He has put a new song in my mouth—
you, who persecuted you. And you will again Praise to our God;
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obey the voice of the LORD and do all His com- Many will see it and fear,
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mandments which I command you today. The And will trust in the LORD.
LORD your God will make you abound in all the
work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in 4 Blessed is that man who makes the
the increase of your livestock, and in the pro- LORD his trust,
duce of your land for good. For the LORD will And does not respect the proud, nor
again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced such as turn aside to lies.
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over your fathers, if you obey the voice of the 5 Many, O LORD my God, are Your
LORD your God, to keep His commandments wonderful works
and His statutes which are written in this Book Which You have done;
of the Law, and if you turn to the LORD your And Your thoughts toward us
God with all your heart and with all your soul. Cannot be recounted to You in order;
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