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"Take this book of the Torah and put it next to the ark with the covenant of ADONAI your God, so that it can be there to witness against you.

For I know how rebellious and stiffnecked you are! Here, even while I am still alive with you today, you have rebelled against ADONAI; so how much more will you do so after my death?

because I know that after my death you will become very corrupt and turn aside from the way that I have ordered you, and that disaster will come upon you in the acharit-hayamim, because you will do what ADONAI sees as evil and provoke him by your deeds."

"For I will proclaim the name of ADONAI. Come, declare the greatness of our God!

The Rock! His work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A trustworthy God who does no wrong, he is righteous and straight.

"He is not corrupt; the defect is in his children, a crooked and perverted generation.

You foolish people, so lacking in wisdom, is this how you repay ADONAI? He is your father, who made you his! It was he who formed and prepared you!

"When 'Elyon gave each nation its heritage, when he divided the human race, he assigned the boundaries of peoples according to Isra'el's population;

but ADONAI's share was his own people, Ya'akov his allotted heritage.

"He found his people in desert country, in a howling, wasted wilderness. He protected him and cared for him, guarded him like the pupil of his eye,

"ADONAI alone led his people; no alien god was with him.

"But Yeshurun grew fat and kicked (you grew fat, thick, gross!). He abandoned God his Maker; he scorned the Rock, his salvation.

They roused him to jealousy with alien gods, provoked him with abominations.

They sacrificed to demons, non-gods, gods that they had never known, new gods that had come up lately, which your ancestors had not feared.

You ignored the Rock who fathered you, you forgot God, who gave you birth.

"ADONAI saw and was filled with scorn at his sons' and daughters' provocation.

He said, 'I will hide my face from them and see what will become of them; for they are a perverse generation, untrustworthy children.

They aroused my jealousy with a non-god and provoked me with their vanities; I will arouse their jealousy with a non-people and provoke them with a vile nation.

I will heap disasters on them and use up all my arrows against them.

"'Fatigued by hunger, they will be consumed by fever and bitter defeat; I will send them the fangs of wild beasts, and the poison of reptiles crawling in the dust.

"'I considered putting an end to them, erasing their memory from the human race;

but I feared the insolence of their enemy, feared that their foes would mistakenly think, "We ourselves accomplished this; ADONAI had nothing to do with it."

After all, how can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to rout, unless their Rock sells them to their enemies, unless ADONAI hands them over?

"'Isn't this hidden with me, sealed in my storehouses?

Vengeance and payback are mine for the time when their foot slips; for the day of their calamity is coming soon, their doom is rushing upon them.'