Like the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not listening to the voice of the Lord, your God.
The Lord is king forever; the nations have vanished from his land.
Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.
The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and beasts of the earth, which no one will drive away.
Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem! I placed it in the midst of the nations, surrounded by foreign lands.
If, despite all this, you disobey and continue hostile to me,
Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt.
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.
but you must hold fast to the Lord, your God, as you have done up to this day.