And it will be, as Hashem had satisfaction over you to do good to you and to multiply you, so Hashem will have satisfaction over you to make you perish and to destroy you, and you will be torn away from the land. And Hashem will scatter you among all the peoples from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. And you will serve other gods, whom you haven't known, you and your fathers, the work of human hands, wood and stone, that don't see and don't hear, and don't eat and don't smell. And Hashem will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations. And among those nations you will not have a respite, and there will not be a resting place for your foot, and Hashem will give you there a trembling heart and a failing of eyes and a fainting of soul. And your life will be hanging opposite you and you will fear night and day and you will not trust in your life. In the morning you will say, "Who would make it evening," and in the evening you will say, "Who would make it morning," because of your heart's fear that you will have and because of the sight before your eyes that you will see. And you will become an astonishment, a proverb, and an expression among all the peoples to which Hashem will drive you.
And the last generation will say: Your children who will come up after you and the foreigner who will come from a far land, when they will see that land's plagues and the illnesses that Hashem put in it, brimstone and salt, all of the land a burning, it won't be seeded and won't grow, and not any vegetation will come up in it, like the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Hashem overturned in His anger, and His fury. And all the nations will say, "For what did Hashem do something like this to this land? What is this big flaring of anger?" And they will say: "For the fact that they left the covenant with Hashem, their father's G-d, which He made with them when He brought them out from the land of Mitzrayim. And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they had not known and He had not allocated to them. And Hashem's anger flared at that land, to bring over it every curse that is written in this scroll. And Hashem plucked them from their land in anger and in fury and in great rage, and He threw them into another land as it is today."
But if you will seek Hashem from there, then you will find Him, when you will inquire of Him with all your heart and all your soul. When you have trouble, and all these things have found you, in the end of days, if you will go back to Hashem and listen to his voice, He will not let you down and He will not destroy you, because Hashem is a merciful G-d, and He will not forget your father's covenant that He swore to them.
And it will be, when all these things will come upon you, and you will take it to your heart among the nations to which Hashem has driven you, and you will come back to Hashem you and your children, with all your heart and with all you soul. Then Hashem will bring back your captivity and be merciful to you. And He will come back and gather you from all the peoples to which Hashem has scattered you. If you will be driven to the end of the skies, Hashem will gather you from there, and He will take you from there. And Hashem will bring you in the land that your fathers possessed, and you will take possession of it, and He will be good to you and multiply you more than your fathers. And Hashem will circumcise your heart and your seed's heart so as to love Hashem with all your heart and with all your soul so that you will live. And Hashem will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who have pursued you. And Hashem will give you extra of all your hand's work, of the fruit of your womb and of the fruit of your animals and the fruit of the land for good. Because Hashem will come back to have satisfaction over you as He had satisfaction over your fathers, when you will come back to Hashem with all your heart and with all your soul.
Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
For I will proclaim the name of the Hashem; ascribe ye greatness unto our G-d.
The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a G-d of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.
Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.
Do ye thus repay to Hashem, O foolish people and unwise? Is not He thy father that hath gotten thee? Hath He not made thee, and established thee?
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of the children of G-d.
For the portion of the Hashem is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste, a howling wilderness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, hovereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her pinions--
The Hashem alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with Him.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Curd of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the kidney-fat of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drankest foaming wine.
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked--thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross--and he forsook G-d who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.
They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.
They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.
Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful, and didst forget G-d that bore thee.
And the Hashem saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.
And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a generation of overthrows, children in whom is no faithfulness.
They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation.
For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burneth unto the depths of the nether-world, and devoureth the earth with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them;
The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;
Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation, lest their adversaries should misdeem, lest they should say: Our hand is exalted, and not the Hashem hath wrought all this.'
For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had given them over and the Hashem had delivered them up?
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter;
Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of cobras.
'Is not this laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, against the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
For the Hashem will judge His people, and repent Himself for His servants; when He seeth that their stay is gone, and there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.
And it is said: Where are their gods, the rock in whom they trusted;
Who did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let him rise up and help you, let him be your protection.
See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god with Me; I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand.
For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say: As I live for ever,
If I whet My glittering sword, and My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to Mine adversaries, and will recompense them that hate Me.
I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'
Sing aloud, O heavens, of His people; for He doth avenge the blood of His servants, and doth render vengeance to His adversaries, and doth make atonement for the land, His people.
