신명기를 읽고

신명기는 모세가 이스라엘 백성들을 이집트에서 가나안 앞까지 인도한 후 그 맞은편인 모압평지에서 한 말들을 기록한 책입니다. 서른 네장에 달하는 적지않은 분량속에는 모세의 마음이 그대로 담겨 있습니다.

마지막 34장에서 모세는 하나님의 영광을 드러내지 못한 실수로 자신은 가나안에 들어가지 못하고 느보산에서 생의 마지막을 맞게된다는 사실도 고백합니다. 그가 80세 때 호렙산에서 보았던 작은 떨기나무의 하나님은 100만명이 넘는 이스라엘 백성들을 호렙산까지 인도해 왔을 때는 어마어마한 능력의 하나님으로 나타납니다. 이스라엘 백성들은 그 하나님을 직접 마주하면 죽을까 두려워 모세에게 중재자 역할을 당부하기도 합니다.

모세는 신명기에서 이스라엘 백성들이 가나안에 들어가서 어떻게 하나님을 섬겨야 할지를 특별히 강조합니다. 그리고 먹고 사는 문제에 대해서도 자세히 언급합니다. 하나님을 섬긴다고 예배만 드릴 수는 없기 때문입니다. 심지어는 화장실을 어떻게 설치할지에 대한 상세한 내용을 보노라면 하나님은 정말 위생에 대한 배려도 깊은 분이시라는 사실을 절감하게 됩니다. 이방인들과 고아와 과부들을 대표하는 약자들에 대한 배려와 함께 말입니다.

모세는 하나님의 율법을 따를 경우에는 축복이 계속되지만 다른 신을 섬기면 어마 무시한 저주가 있을 것임을 경고합니다. 그 율법은 어려운 것이 아니라고 합니다.

신명기 후반부에 나오는 그 저주의 내용을 읽고 있노라면 이스라엘이 바벨론 침공을 당하던 기원전 586년을 생각나게 합니다. 전쟁의 참화와 함께 이스라엘 백성들은 70년동안 바벨론에서의 고달픈 포로생활에 들어갑니다. 그리고 70년 후 페르시아 왕 고레스에 의해 이스라엘 포로들의 귀환명령이 떨어집니다. 페르시아 제국의 정책이 바벨론과 달리 자국민들에 의한 경제재건 방식을 선택했기 때문이었습니다.

이러한 역사적인 흐름에 따라 포로에서 귀환한 이스라엘 백성들은 예루살렘 재건운동을 일으킵니다. 이 일은 일찌기 예레미야가 예언한 일이었고 다니엘이 그 예언을 확증한 일이었습니다.

이 대목에서 저는 한반도가 생각납니다.

1950년 한국전쟁은 바벨론의 이스라엘 침공에 버금가는 국가적인 재앙이었습니다.
2020년이면 한반도는 한국전쟁 후 70년을 맞게됩니다.

한반도는 과연 어떤 상황을 맞게 될까요?

저는 그 해답이 예레미야를 영적인 스승으로 모시고 제국의 최고 실권자가 됐던 다니엘에게 있다고 봅니다.

Stone Choi.

 

신명기 34장

신명기 34장 – 음성녹음

1. Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land– from Gilead to Dan,

2. all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

3. the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar.

4. Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”

5. And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said.

6. He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.

7. Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.

8. The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

9. Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites listened to him and did what the LORD had commanded Moses.

10. Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

11. who did all those miraculous signs and wonders the LORD sent him to do in Egypt– to Pharaoh and to all his officials and to his whole land.

12. For no one has ever shown the mighty power or performed the awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

신명기 33장

신명기 33장 – 음성녹음

1. This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.

2. He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.

3. Surely it is you who love the people; all the holy ones are in your hand. At your feet they all bow down, and from you receive instruction,

4. the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.

5. He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.

6. “Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

7. And this he said about Judah: “Hear, O LORD, the cry of Judah; bring him to his people. With his own hands he defends his cause. Oh, be his help against his foes!”

8. About Levi he said: “Your Thummim and Urim belong to the man you favored. You tested him at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.

9. He said of his father and mother, ‘I have no regard for them.’ He did not recognize his brothers or acknowledge his own children, but he watched over your word and guarded your covenant.

10. He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.

11. Bless all his skills, O LORD, and be pleased with the work of his hands. Smite the loins of those who rise up against him; strike his foes till they rise no more.”

12. About Benjamin he said: “Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between his shoulders.”

13. About Joseph he said: “May the LORD bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below;

14. with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;

15. with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;

16. with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

17. In majesty he is like a firstborn bull; his horns are the horns of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim; such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

18. About Zebulun he said: “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and you, Issachar, in your tents.

19. They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer sacrifices of righteousness; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.”

20. About Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad’s domain! Gad lives there like a lion, tearing at arm or head.

21. He chose the best land for himself; the leader’s portion was kept for him. When the heads of the people assembled, he carried out the LORD’s righteous will, and his judgments concerning Israel.”

22. About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, springing out of Bashan.”

23. About Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the LORD and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.”

24. About Asher he said: “Most blessed of sons is Asher; let him be favored by his brothers, and let him bathe his feet in oil.

25. The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.

26. “There is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty.

27. The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy him!’

28. So Israel will live in safety alone; Jacob’s spring is secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.

29. Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your shield and helper and your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample down their high places.”

신명기 32장

신명기 32장 – 음성녹음

1. Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

2. Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

3. I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!

4. He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

5. They have acted corruptly toward him; to their shame they are no longer his children, but a warped and crooked generation.

6. Is this the way you repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

7. Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.

8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

9. For the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

10. In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

11. like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.

12. The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.

13. He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

14. with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.

15. Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek. He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.

16. They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.

17. They sacrificed to demons, which are not God– gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.

18. You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19. The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.

20. “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.

21. They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

22. For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

23. “I will heap calamities upon them and spend my arrows against them.

24. I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

25. In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.

26. I said I would scatter them and blot out their memory from mankind,

27. but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.'”

28. They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.

29. If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!

30. How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

31. For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

32. Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.

33. Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

34. “Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?

35. It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.”

36. The LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

37. He will say: “Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,

38. the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!

39. “See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.

40. I lift my hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

41. when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.

42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

43. Rejoice, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.

44. Moses came with Joshua son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

45. When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel,

46. he said to them, “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.

47. They are not just idle words for you– they are your life. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

48. On that same day the LORD told Moses,

49. “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

50. There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

51. This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.

52. Therefore, you will see the land only from a distance; you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Israel.”

신명기 31장

신명기 31장 – 음성녹음

1. Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel:

2. “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’

3. The LORD your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the LORD said.

4. And the LORD will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land.

5. The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you.

6. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

7. Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their forefathers to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance.

8. The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

9. So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

10. Then Moses commanded them: “At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

11. when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing.

12. Assemble the people– men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns– so they can listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.

13. Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

14. The LORD said to Moses, “Now the day of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, where I will commission him.” So Moses and Joshua came and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.

15. Then the LORD appeared at the Tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the Tent.

16. And the LORD said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them.

17. On that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and difficulties will come upon them, and on that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is not with us?’

18. And I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

19. “Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them.

20. When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant.

21. And when many disasters and difficulties come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath.”

22. So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

23. The LORD gave this command to Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I promised them on oath, and I myself will be with you.”

24. After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

25. he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:

26. “Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.

27. For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you have been rebellious against the LORD while I am still alive and with you, how much more will you rebel after I die!

28. Assemble before me all the elders of your tribes and all your officials, so that I can speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to testify against them.

29. For I know that after my death you are sure to become utterly corrupt and to turn from the way I have commanded you. In days to come, disaster will fall upon you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD and provoke him to anger by what your hands have made.”

30. And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:

신명기 30장

신명기 30장 – 음성녹음

1. When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,

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

3. then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.

4. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

5. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.

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

7. The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

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

9. Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers,

10. if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

11. Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

12. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

13. Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

14. No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

15. See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.

16. For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

17. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

18. I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

19. This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

20. and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

신명기 29장

신명기 29장 – 음성녹음

1. These are the terms of the covenant the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab, in addition to the covenant he had made with them at Horeb.

2. Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials and to all his land.

3. With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those miraculous signs and great wonders.

4. But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.

5. During the forty years that I led you through the desert, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

6. You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

7. When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.

8. We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

9. Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so that you may prosper in everything you do.

10. All of you are standing today in the presence of the LORD your God– your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel,

11. together with your children and your wives, and the aliens living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

12. You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath,

13. to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

14. I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you

15. who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.

16. You yourselves know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here.

17. You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

18. Make sure there is no man or 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; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

19. When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, “I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way.” This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

20. The LORD will never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man. All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

21. The LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

22. Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.

23. The whole land will be a burning waste of salt and sulfur– nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in fierce anger.

24. All the nations will ask: “Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?”

25. And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.

26. They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them.

27. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.

28. In furious anger and in great wrath the LORD uprooted them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

29. The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.

신명기 28장

신명기 28장 – 음성녹음

1. If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

2. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

3. You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4. The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock– the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5. Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6. You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7. The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8. The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9. The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

10. Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.

11. The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity– in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground– in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

12. The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

13. The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

14. Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

15. However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16. You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17. Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18. The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19. You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20. The LORD will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

21. The LORD will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

22. The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

23. The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.

24. The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25. The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.

26. Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

27. The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured.

28. The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

29. At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

30. You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.

31. Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

32. Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand.

33. A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days.

34. The sights you see will drive you mad.

35. The LORD will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36. The LORD will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

37. You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the LORD will drive you.

38. You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

39. You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

40. You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

41. You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

42. Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43. The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

44. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45. All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the LORD your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

46. They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.

47. Because you did not serve the LORD your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

48. therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the LORD sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49. The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,

50. a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young.

51. They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

52. They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.

53. Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.

54. Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,

55. and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.

56. The most gentle and sensitive woman among you– so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot– will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

57. the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

58. If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name– the LORD your God–

59. the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.

60. He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you.

61. The LORD will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

62. You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.

63. Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64. Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods– gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

65. Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart.

66. You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life.

67. In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”– because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

68. The LORD will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

신명기 27장

신명기 27장 – 음성녹음

1. Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all these commands that I give you today.

2. When you have crossed the Jordan into the land the LORD your God is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.

3. Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.

4. And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat them with plaster.

5. Build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. Do not use any iron tool upon them.

6. Build the altar of the LORD your God with fieldstones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

7. Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

8. And you shall write very clearly all the words of this law on these stones you have set up.”

9. Then Moses and the priests, who are Levites, said to all Israel, “Be silent, O Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the LORD your God.

10. Obey the LORD your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today.”

11. On the same day Moses commanded the people:

12. When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin.

13. And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.

14. The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:

15. “Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol– a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman’s hands– and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

16. “Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

17. “Cursed is the man who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

18. “Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the road.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

19. “Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

20. “Cursed is the man who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he dishonors his father’s bed.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

21. “Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

22. “Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

23. “Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

24. “Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

25. “Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

26. “Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

신명기 26장

신명기 26장 – 음성녹음

1. When you have entered the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it,

2. take some of the firstfruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name

3. and say to the priest in office at the time, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the land the LORD swore to our forefathers to give us.”

4. The priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the LORD your God.

5. Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

6. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor.

7. Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression.

8. So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with miraculous signs and wonders.

9. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey;

10. and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, O LORD, have given me.” Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him.

11. And you and the Levites and the aliens among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

12. When you have finished setting aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you shall give it to the Levite, the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied.

13. Then say to the LORD your God: “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the alien, the fatherless and the widow, according to all you commanded. I have not turned aside from your commands nor have I forgotten any of them.

14. I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while I was in mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything you commanded me.

15. Look down from heaven, your holy dwelling place, and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us as you promised on oath to our forefathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

16. The LORD your God commands you this day to follow these decrees and laws; carefully observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.

17. You have declared this day that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in his ways, that you will keep his decrees, commands and laws, and that you will obey him.

18. And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands.

19. He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations he has made and that you will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.