Deuteronomy 30:1-8

1 All these blessings and curses I have spoken about will happen to you. Take them to heart when you are among all the nations where the LORD your God will scatter you.

2 If you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul, doing everything I command you today,

3 he will restore your fortunes. He will have mercy on you and gather you from all the nations of the world where he will scatter you.

4 Even if you are scattered to the most distant country in the world, the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back from there.

5 The LORD your God will bring you to the land your ancestors owned. You will take possession of it, and the LORD will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors were.

6 The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants. You will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and you will live.

7 Then the LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, those who hate you and persecute you.

8 You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands that I'm giving you today.

Deuteronomy 30:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 30

This chapter contains some gracious promises of the conversion of the Jews in the latter day, of their calling things to mind that have befallen them, of their repentance, and the circumcision of their hearts to love the Lord, of the return of them to their own land, and of the great increase of them, and of their enjoyment of plenty of good things, De 30:1-10; in it is an account of the Gospel, or word of faith, which at this time should be brought near to the Jews, and be received by them, De 30:11-14; and for the present Moses desires them to consider what he now set before them, and what would be the consequences of receiving or rejecting it, and so what it would be most proper for them to make choice of, De 30:15-20.