²⁵ “When you beget children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved image in the form of anything, and ^(A)do evil in the sight of the Lord your God to provoke Him to anger, ^26 (B)I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not ^[a]prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed. ²⁷ And the Lord ^(C)will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

⁶³ And it shall be, that just as the Lord ^(A)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord ^(B)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be ^(C)plucked^[a] from off the land which you go to possess.

⁶⁴ “Then the Lord ^(D)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^(E)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And ^(F)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; ^(G)but there the Lord will give you a ^[b]trembling heart, failing eyes, and ^(H)anguish of soul. ⁶⁶ Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. ^67 (I)In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and ^(J)because of the sight which your eyes see.