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20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger[a] will rage[b] against that man; all the curses[c] written in this scroll will fall upon him,[d] and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.
  2. Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
  3. Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
  4. Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
  5. Deuteronomy 29:20 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

20 The Lord will never be willing to forgive(A) them; his wrath and zeal(B) will burn(C) against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot(D) out their names from under heaven.

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