²⁶ I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.^{(A) 27} The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and there shall remain but a handful of you among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. ²⁸ There you shall serve gods that are works of human hands, of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.^(B)

⁹ Then the Lord, your God, will generously increase your undertakings, the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil;^(A) for the Lord, your God, will again take delight in your prosperity, just as he took delight in your ancestors’,

³³ And you I will scatter among the nations^(A) at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted. ³⁴ Then shall the land, during the time it lies waste, make up its lost sabbaths, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths^{(B) 35} during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on your sabbaths when you lived there.

³⁶ Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them; ³⁷ stumbling over one another as if to escape a sword, while no one is after them—so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes! ³⁸ You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country. ³⁹ Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt.^(C)