Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Neverthelater, ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

For ask, I pray thee, of the days that are past which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth and from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether anything hath been like unto this great thing or whether any such thing hath been heard as it is -

Oh that they had such a heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

It is not for thy righteousness' sake and right heart that thou goest to possess their land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that which the LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness' sake, that the LORD thy God doth give thee this good land to possess it, for thou art a stiff-necked people.

And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more, and such wickedness as this is, among them.

Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:

and it was told thee and thou hast heard of it: Then thou shalt enquire diligently. And if it be true and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

For all that do such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee.

And other shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such wickedness among you.

Thou shalt never, therefore, seek that which is prosperous or good for them all thy days forever.

For all that do such things and all that do unright, are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

these tribulations are come upon us.' But I will hide my face that same time for all the evil's sake which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods.

The froward and overthwart generation hath marred themselves to himward, and are not his sons for their deformities' sake.

He set him up upon a high land, and he ate the increase of the fields. And he gave him honey to suck out of the rock, and oil out of the hard stone.

Are not such things laid in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

They shall call the people unto the hill, and there they shall offer offerings of righteousness. For they shall suck of the abundance of the sea and of treasure hid in the sand."