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Deuteronomy 29:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

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Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to feed this people wormwood  and give them poisonous water to drink.


Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away  from the living God.


For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.’


Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood   –


They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.


When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,  thinking, “I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.” This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.


For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.


Why are we just sitting here? Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has destroyed   us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the  Lord.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says concerning the prophets: I am about to feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness  has spread throughout the land.


They keep on saying to those who despise me,  “The Lord has spoken: You will have peace.”  They have said to everyone who follows the stubbornness of his heart, “No harm will come to you.” ’





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