6 “Know, therefore, that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are ^ga stubborn people. 7 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. ^hFrom the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

16 And the Lord said to Moses, ^b“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and ^ewhore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will ^fforsake me and ^gbreak my covenant that I have made with them. 17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^hI will forsake them and ⁱhide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ^j‘Have not these evils come upon us because ^kour God is not among us?’ 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because ^lthey have turned to other gods.

27 For I know how rebellious and ^cstubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, ^dyou have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death! 28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak ^ethese words in their ears and ^fcall heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death ^gyou will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And ^hin the days to come ⁱevil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, ^jprovoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”