29:26. And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned: 29:27. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume: 29:28. And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day. 29:29. Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Secret things, etc... As much as to say, secret things belong to, and are known to, God alone; our business must be to observe what he has revealed and manifested to us, and to direct our lives accordingly. Deuteronomy Chapter 30 Great mercies are promised to the penitent: God's commandment is feasible. Life and death are set before them. 30:1. Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee, 30:2. And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: 30:3. The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before. 30:4. If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from hence, 30:5. And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers. 30:6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live. 30:7. And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee. 30:8. But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day: 30:9. And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers: 30:10. Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 30:11. This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee: 30:12. Nor is it in heaven, that thou shouldst say: Which of us can go up to heaven to bring it unto us, and we may hear and fulfil it in work?