Prosperity After Turning to the Lord
1When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, 2and 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, 3then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes30:3 Or will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. 4Even 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. 5He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. 6The 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. 7The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. 8You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. 9Then 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 ancestors, 10if 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
11Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12It 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?” 13Nor 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?” 14No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
15See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. 16For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, 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.
17But 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, 18I 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.
19This day I call the heavens and the 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 20and 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.
归向耶和华必蒙福
1“当我向你们陈明的这些祝福和咒诅都应验在你们身上时，如果你们在你们的上帝耶和华驱逐你们去的各国中回想这些话， 2归向你们的上帝耶和华，你们及子孙照我今天的吩咐全心全意地听从祂的话， 3祂必改变你们被掳的境遇，怜悯你们，把你们从祂驱逐你们去的列国招聚回来。 4即使你们被驱逐到天涯，你们的上帝耶和华也会把你们带回来， 5带到你们祖先的土地上，使你们拥有那片土地，比你们祖先更加人丁兴旺、繁荣昌盛。 6你们的上帝耶和华要洁净你们和你们子孙的心，好让你们全心全意地爱祂，并且存活。 7你们的上帝耶和华要把所有的咒诅加在你们的仇敌及憎恶你们、迫害你们的人身上。 8你们必再次听从耶和华，遵行今天祂借我吩咐你们的一切诫命。 9-10倘若你们听从你们的上帝耶和华的话，遵守这律法书上的诫命和律例，全心全意地归向祂，祂必使你们凡事蒙福、儿女众多、牛羊成群、五谷丰登。因为祂必乐意再次赐福你们，像从前赐福你们祖先一样。
生死抉择
11“我今天颁布给你们的诫命，对你们来说不难遵行，也非遥不可及。 12这诫命并非在天上，以致你们说，‘谁替我们上天取下来，讲给我们听，让我们遵行呢？’ 13这诫命也不在海的彼岸，以致你们说，‘谁替我们过海取来，讲给我们听，好让我们遵行呢？’ 14这诫命近在咫尺，就在你口里，在你心中，好让你们遵行。
15“看啊，今天我把生死祸福摆在你们面前。 16我今天吩咐你们要爱你们的上帝耶和华，遵行祂的旨意，遵守祂的诫命、律例和典章，以便你们可以存活，人口兴旺，在你们将要占领的土地上蒙祂赐福。 17但倘若你们心中偏离，不肯听从，被引诱去祭拜、供奉别的神明， 18我今天警告你们，你们必定灭亡，在约旦河对岸——你们将要占领的土地上无法长久。 19今天，我叫天地为你们作证，我已把生死祸福摆在你们面前。选择生命吧，以便你们及子孙可以存活。 20要爱你们的上帝耶和华，听从祂的话，倚靠祂，因为祂是你们的生命，祂必使你们长久住在祂起誓赐给你们祖先亚伯拉罕、以撒和雅各的土地上。”
