Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵ However, if you do not obey^(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(C)

¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors,^(A) and these people will soon prostitute^(B) themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake^(C) me and break the covenant I made with them. ¹⁷ And in that day I will become angry^(D) with them and forsake^(E) them; I will hide^(F) my face^(G) from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters^(H) and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’^(I)

¹³ “Go and inquire^(A) of the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found. Great is the Lord’s anger^(B) that burns against us because those who have gone before us have not obeyed the words of this book; they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us.”

¹⁷ Because they have forsaken^(A) me and burned incense to other gods and aroused my anger by all the idols their hands have made,^[a] my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.’

⁵ I myself will fight^(A) against you with an outstretched hand^(B) and a mighty arm^(C) in furious anger and in great wrath.