15. but with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16. (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the midst of the nations through which ye passed;
17. and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18. lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
19. and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine heart, to destroy the moist with the dry:
20. the Lord will not pardon him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21. And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
22. And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the Lord hath made it sick;
23. and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24. even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25. Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
26. and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27. therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book:
28. and the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.