ONE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS 263
Hoses to His People
Moses said unto the Lord* O my Lord, I am not eloquent, but am slow of speech.
WHEN thou art in tribulation, if thou turn to the Lord thy God
he will not forsake thee. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind".
Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that
I knew you. I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty
nights and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people which thou
hast redeemed.
The Lord hearkened unto me at that time and would not destroy
thee. And now what doth the Lord require of thee but to fear God,
to walk in all Ms ways, and to love him ? The Lord had a delight
in thy fathers to love them5 and he choose their seed after thems you
above all people. Thy fathers went down into Egypt with three-
score and ten persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee
as the stars of heaven for multitude.
If ye shall diligently keep all these commandments, to do them,
to love the Lord your God9 to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto
him, then will the Lord drive out all nations before you, and ye shall
possess greater nations, and mightier than yourselves. Every place
your feet shall tread shall be yours. There shall no man be able to
stand before yen.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the Lord thy God, that curses shall come upon thee. Thy sons and
thy daughters shall be given unto another people., and there shall be
no might in thine hand. The fruit of thy land? and all thy labours,
shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up. Thou shalt be
oppressed and crushed alway. Thou shalt become an astonishment^
a proverb, and a byword among all nations. Thou shalt carry much
seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in, for the locust
shall consume it. Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy
coasts but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil, for thine olive
shall cast its fruit. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters but shalt
not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity.
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from afar, from the
end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth ; a nation whose tongue
thou shalt not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, which shall
not regard the old, nor show favour to the young, and shall eat the
fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed*
Ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven
for multitude, because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord
thy God. The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the
one end of the earth to the other ; and among these nations shalt thou
find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but the
Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and