¹“Therefore you shall love the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always. ²Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm— ³His signs and His acts which He did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his land; ⁴what He did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and their chariots: how He made the waters of the Red Sea overflow them as they pursued you, and how the Lᴏʀᴅ has destroyed them to this day; ⁵what He did for you in the wilderness until you came to this place; ⁶and what He did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, their households, their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel— ⁷but your eyes have seen every great act of the Lᴏʀᴅ which He did. ⁸“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, ⁹and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lᴏʀᴅ swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ ¹⁰For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; ¹¹but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, ¹²a land for which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God cares; the eyes of the Lᴏʀᴅ your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year. ¹³‘And it shall be that if you earnestly obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lᴏʀᴅ your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul, ¹⁴then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. ¹⁵And I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may eat and be filled.’ ¹⁶Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them, ¹⁷lest the Lᴏʀᴅ’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lᴏʀᴅ is giving you. ¹⁸“Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ²⁰And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lᴏʀᴅ swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. ²²“For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do—to love the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him— ²³then the Lᴏʀᴅ will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. ²⁴Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. ²⁵No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lᴏʀᴅ your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. ²⁶“Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lᴏʀᴅ your God which I command you today; ²⁸and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lᴏʀᴅ your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known. ²⁹Now it shall be, when the Lᴏʀᴅ your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. ³⁰Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh? ³¹For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lᴏʀᴅ your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. ³²And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

¹Oh come, let us sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. ²Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. ³For the Lᴏʀᴅ is the great God, And the great King above all gods. ⁴In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. ⁵The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land. ⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lᴏʀᴅ our Maker. ⁷For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: ⁸“Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, ⁹When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. ¹⁰For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’ ¹¹So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

¹Oh, sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ a new song! Sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ, all the earth. ²Sing to the Lᴏʀᴅ, bless His name; Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. ³Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. ⁴For the Lᴏʀᴅ is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods. ⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lᴏʀᴅ made the heavens. ⁶Honor and majesty are before Him; Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. ⁷Give to the Lᴏʀᴅ, O families of the peoples, Give to the Lᴏʀᴅ glory and strength. ⁸Give to the Lᴏʀᴅ the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts. ⁹Oh, worship the Lᴏʀᴅ in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. ¹⁰Say among the nations, “The Lᴏʀᴅ reigns; The world also is firmly established, It shall not be moved; He shall judge the peoples righteously.” ¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; Let the sea roar, and all its fullness; ¹²Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹³For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.

¹At that time Merodach-Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. ²And Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his treasures—the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory—all that was found among his treasures. There was nothing in his house or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them. ³Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?” So Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a far country, from Babylon.” ⁴And he said, “What have they seen in your house?” So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.” ⁵Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lᴏʀᴅ of hosts: ⁶‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lᴏʀᴅ. ⁷‘And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ” ⁸So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lᴏʀᴅ which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “At least there will be peace and truth in my days.”

¹Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. ²And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. ³Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them. ⁷The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. ⁹And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. ¹⁰They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. ¹¹And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. ¹²One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things. ¹³Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. ¹⁸By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. ¹⁹For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm. ²⁰But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. ²¹And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.