Deuteronomy 29:18-28

Thomson(i) 18 is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness? 19 Now in case any one shall hear the words of this curse, and bless himself in his heart, saying, Good luck betide me! I will walk in the error of my own heart, that the sinner may not involve the guiltless in ruin with himself. 20 God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law. 22 And when the generations to come; your children who shall rise up after yon, and the stranger who may come from a far distant country, will say; when they shall see the plagues of that land, and the diseases thereof, which the Lord hath sent upon it; 23 brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation; 24 When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation? 25 Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served strange gods, which they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, 27 therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses which are written in the book of the law; 28 and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day.