(9) You stand this day, all of you, before the ETERNAL your God: your tribal heads, your elders, and your officials—the entire body of Israel— (10) your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer, (11) to enter into the covenant of the ETERNAL your God, which the ETERNAL your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions;

(12) in order to establish you this day as God’s people and in order to be your God, as promised you and as sworn to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (13) I make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, (14) but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the ETERNAL our God and with those who are not with us here this day.

(15) Well you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we passed through the midst of various other nations; (16) and you have seen the detestable things and the fetishes of wood and stone, silver and gold, that they keep. (17) Perchance there is among you some man or woman, or some clan or tribe, whose heart is even now turning away from the ETERNAL our God to go and worship the gods of those nations—perchance there is among you a stock sprouting poison weed and wormwood. (18) When hearing the words of these sanctions, they may imagine a special immunity, thinking, “I shall be safe, though I follow my own willful heart”—to the utter ruin of moist and dry alike. (19) GOD will never forgive them. Rather, GOD’s anger and passion will rage against them, till every sanction recorded in this book comes down upon them, and GOD blots out their name from under heaven. (20) [As for such a clan or tribe,] GOD will single it out from all the tribes of Israel for misfortune, in accordance with all the sanctions of the covenant recorded in this book of Teaching. (21) And later generations will ask—the children who succeed you, and foreigners who come from distant lands and see the plagues and diseases that GOD has inflicted upon that land, (22) all its soil devastated by sulfur and salt, beyond sowing and producing, no grass growing in it, just like the upheaval of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which GOD overthrew in fierce anger— (23) all nations will ask, “Why did GOD do thus to this land? Wherefore that awful wrath?” (24) They will be told, “Because they forsook the covenant that the ETERNAL, God of their ancestors, made with them upon freeing them from the land of Egypt; (25) they turned to the service of other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not experienced and who had not been allotted to them. (26) So GOD was incensed at that land and brought upon it all the curses recorded in this book. (27) GOD uprooted them from their soil in anger, fury, and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as is still the case.” (28) Concealed acts concern the ETERNAL our God; but with overt acts, it is for us and our children ever to apply all the provisions of this Teaching.

(1) When all these things befall you—the blessing and the curse that I have set before you—and you take them to heart amidst the various nations to which the ETERNAL your God has banished you, (2) and you return to the ETERNAL your God, and you and your children heed God’s command with all your heart and soul, just as I enjoin upon you this day, (3) then the ETERNAL your God will restore your fortunes and take you back in love. You will be brought together again from all the peoples where the ETERNAL your God has scattered you.

(4) Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the ETERNAL your God will gather you—from there you will be fetched. (5) And the ETERNAL your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors possessed, and you shall possess it; and you will be made more prosperous and more numerous than your ancestors. (6) Then the ETERNAL your God will open up your heart and the hearts of your offspring—to love the ETERNAL your God with all your heart and soul, in order that you may live.

(7) The ETERNAL your God will inflict all those curses upon the enemies and foes who persecuted you. (8) You, however, will again heed GOD and obey all the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day. (9) And the ETERNAL your God will grant you abounding prosperity in all your undertakings, in your issue from the womb, the offspring of your cattle, and your produce from the soil. For GOD will again delight in your well-being as in that of your ancestors, (10) since you will be heeding the ETERNAL your God and keeping the commandments and laws that are recorded in this book of the Teaching—once you return to the ETERNAL your God with all your heart and soul.

(11) Surely, this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. (12) It is not in the heavens, that you should say, “Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?” (13) Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?” (14) No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.

(11) Surely, this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. (12) It is not in the heavens, that you should say, “Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?” (13) Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?” (14) No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.

(10)I greatly rejoice in GOD,
My whole being exults in my God—Who has clothed me with garments of triumph,Wrapped me in a robe of victory,Like a bridegroom adorned with a turban,Like a bride bedecked with her finery.(11)For as the earth brings forth her growthAnd a garden makes the seed shoot up,So my Sovereign GOD will make
Victory and renown shoot upIn the presence of all the nations.(1)For the sake of Zion I will not be silent,For the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still,Till her victory emerge resplendentAnd her triumph like a flaming torch.(2)Nations shall see your victory,And every king your majesty;And you shall be called by a new nameThat GOD shall bestow. (3)You shall be a glorious crownIn the hand of GOD,
And a royal diademIn the palm of your God.(4)Nevermore shall you be called “Forsaken,”Nor shall your land be called “Desolate”;But you shall be called “I delight in her,”And your land “Espoused.”For GOD takes delight in you,
And your land shall be espoused.(5)As a youth espouses a maiden,Your sons shall espouse you;
And as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,So will your God rejoice over you.(6)Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,I have set sentries,Who shall never be silentBy day or by night.O you, the ETERNAL One’s remembrancers,
Take no rest(7)And give no rest to [God],Until Jerusalem is establishedAnd she is made renowned on earth.(8) GOD has sworn with the right hand,
With a mighty arm:Nevermore will I give your new grainTo your enemies for food,Nor shall foreigners drink the new wineFor which you have labored.(9)But those who harvest it shall eat itAnd give praise to GOD;
And those who gather it shall drink itIn My sacred courts.(10)Pass through, pass through the gates!Clear the road for the people;Build up, build up the highway,Remove the rocks!Raise an ensign over the peoples!(11)See, GOD has proclaimed
To the end of the earth:Announce to Fair Zion,Your Deliverer is coming!See, [God] has brought along the reward,The recompense is in view. (12)And they shall be called, “The Holy People,GOD’s Redeemed,”And you shall be called, “Sought Out,A City Not Forsaken.”(1)Who is this coming from Edom,In crimsoned garments from Bozrah—Who is this, majestic in attire,Pressing forward with great might?
“It is I, who contend victoriously,Powerful to give triumph.”(2)Why is Your clothing so red,Your garments like those of someone who treads grapes?(3)“I trod out a vintage alone;Of the peoples nobody was with Me.
I trod them down in My anger,Trampled them in My rage;Their life-blood bespattered My garments,
And all My clothing was stained.(4)For I had planned a day of vengeance,And My year of redemption arrived.(5)Then I looked, but there was none to help;I stared, but there was none to aid—So My own arm wrought the triumph,And My own rage was My aid. (6)I trampled peoples in My anger,I made them drunk with My rage,
And I hurled their glory to the ground.”(7)I will recount GOD’s kind acts, GOD’s praises—For all that GOD has wrought for us,
The vast bounty to the House of IsraelThat was bestowed upon themAccording to God’s mercy and great kindness.(8)[God] thought: Surely they are My people,Children who will not play false.So [God] was their Deliverer.(9)In all their troubles [God] was troubled,And the angel of the divine Presence delivered them.In love and pityIt was [God] who redeemed them,Raised them, and exalted themAll the days of old.

(10)I greatly rejoice in GOD,
My whole being exults in my God—Who has clothed me with garments of triumph,Wrapped me in a robe of victory,Like a bridegroom adorned with a turban,Like a bride bedecked with her finery.(11)For as the earth brings forth her growthAnd a garden makes the seed shoot up,So my Sovereign GOD will make
Victory and renown shoot upIn the presence of all the nations.(1)For the sake of Zion I will not be silent,For the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still,Till her victory emerge resplendentAnd her triumph like a flaming torch.(2)Nations shall see your victory,And every king your majesty;And you shall be called by a new nameThat GOD shall bestow. (3)You shall be a glorious crownIn the hand of GOD,
And a royal diademIn the palm of your God.(4)Nevermore shall you be called “Forsaken,”Nor shall your land be called “Desolate”;But you shall be called “I delight in her,”And your land “Espoused.”For GOD takes delight in you,
And your land shall be espoused.(5)As a youth espouses a maiden,Your sons shall espouse you;
And as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,So will your God rejoice over you.(6)Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,I have set sentries,Who shall never be silentBy day or by night.O you, the ETERNAL One’s remembrancers,
Take no rest(7)And give no rest to [God],Until Jerusalem is establishedAnd she is made renowned on earth.(8) GOD has sworn with the right hand,
With a mighty arm:Nevermore will I give your new grainTo your enemies for food,Nor shall foreigners drink the new wineFor which you have labored.(9)But those who harvest it shall eat itAnd give praise to GOD;
And those who gather it shall drink itIn My sacred courts.(10)Pass through, pass through the gates!Clear the road for the people;Build up, build up the highway,Remove the rocks!Raise an ensign over the peoples!(11)See, GOD has proclaimed
To the end of the earth:Announce to Fair Zion,Your Deliverer is coming!See, [God] has brought along the reward,The recompense is in view. (12)And they shall be called, “The Holy People,GOD’s Redeemed,”And you shall be called, “Sought Out,A City Not Forsaken.”