Ulangan 4:30-31

4:30 In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, ¹  if you return to the Lord your God and obey him ²  4:31 (for he ³  is a merciful God), he will not let you down ⁴  or destroy you, for he cannot ⁵  forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.

Ulangan 30:2-10

30:2 Then if you and your descendants ⁶  turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being ⁷  just as ⁸  I am commanding you today, 30:3 the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he ⁹  has scattered you. 30:4 Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, ¹⁰  from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. 30:5 Then he ¹¹  will bring you to the land your ancestors ¹²  possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors. 30:6 The Lord your God will also cleanse ¹³  your heart and the hearts of your descendants ¹⁴  so that you may love him ¹⁵  with all your mind and being and so that you may live. 30:7 Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you. 30:8 You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving ¹⁶  you today. 30:9 The Lord your God will make the labor of your hands ¹⁷  abundantly successful and multiply your children, ¹⁸  the offspring of your cattle, and the produce of your soil. For the Lord your God will once more ¹⁹  rejoice over you to make you prosperous ²⁰  just as he rejoiced over your ancestors, 30:10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this scroll of the law. But you must turn to him ²¹  with your whole mind and being.

[4:30]  ¹ sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.

[4:30]  ² tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.

[4:31]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 4:3.

[4:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “he will not drop you,” i.e., “will not abandon you” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[4:31]  ⁵ tn Or “will not.” The translation understands the imperfect verbal form to have an added nuance of capability here.

[30:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “sons” (so NASB); KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “children.”

[30:2]  ⁷ tn Or “heart and soul” (also in vv. 6, 10).

[30:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “according to all.”

[30:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[30:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “are at the farthest edge of the heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[30:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

[30:5]  ¹² tn Heb “fathers” (also later in this verse and in vv. 9, 20).

[30:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “circumcise” (so KJV, NAB, NIV, NRSV); TEV “will give you and your descendents obedient hearts.” See note on the word “cleanse” in Deut 10:16.

[30:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).

[30:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.

[30:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I now enjoin on you.”

[30:9]  ¹⁷ tc The MT reads “hand” (singular). Most versions read the plural.

[30:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV); NRSV “of your body.”

[30:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “return and.” The Hebrew verb is used idiomatically here to indicate the repetition of the following action.

[30:9]  ²⁰ tn The Hebrew text includes “for good.”

[30:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “to the Lord your God.” See note on the second occurrence of the word “he” in v. 3.