²⁷ for I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you rebel against the Lord while I am still alive and with you, how much more so will you be after my death. ²⁸ Gather all the elders of your tribes and your officials before me so that I can proclaim these words in their hearing and call upon the heavens and the earth to give witness against them. ²⁹ I know that after my death you will be totally perverse. You will turn away from the way that I have commanded of you. In days to come disasters will shower down upon you because you will have done what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the works of your hands.”