Deuteronomy 30

• 1. When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,
• 2. and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,
• 3. then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
• 4. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.
• 5. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.
• 6. The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.
• 7. The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.
• 8. You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today.
• 9. Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers,
• 10. if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. The Offer of Life or Death
• 11. Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
• 12. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
• 13. Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
• 14. No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
• 15. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
• 16. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
• 17. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,
• 18. I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
• 19. This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live
• 20. and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Psalms 122

• 1. I rejoiced with those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."
• 2. Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
• 3. Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together.
• 4. That is where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to praise the name of the LORD according to the statute given to Israel.
• 5. There the thrones for judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
• 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be secure.
• 7. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels."
• 8. For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, "Peace be within you."
• 9. For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.

Isaiah 57

• 1. The righteous perish, and no one ponders it in his heart; devout men are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
• 2. Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
• 3. "But you-come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!
• 4. Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?
• 5. You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.
• 6. The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; they, they are your lot. Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerings. In the light of these things, should I relent?
• 7. You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
• 8. Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked on their nakedness.
• 9. You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors far away; you descended to the grave itself!
• 10. You were wearied by all your ways, but you would not say, 'It is hopeless.' You found renewal of your strength, and so you did not faint.
• 11. "Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
• 12. I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.
• 13. When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry all of them off, a mere breath will blow them away. But the man who makes me his refuge will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain."
• 14. And it will be said: "Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people."
• 15. For this is what the high and lofty One says- he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• 16. I will not accuse forever, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirit of man would grow faint before me- the breath of man that I have created.
• 17. I was enraged by his sinful greed; I punished him, and hid my face in anger, yet he kept on in his willful ways.
• 18. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him,
• 19. creating praise on the lips of the mourners in Israel. Peace, peace, to those far and near," says the LORD. "And I will heal them."
• 20. But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.
• 21. "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

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