all these things are come upon thee Deuteronomy 4:30.

the blessing and the curse, etc.] Deuteronomy 11:26; cp. Deuteronomy 4:8. Blessingas well as curse, because the memory that God, in His faithfulness, had blessed them, in such times as they were obedient, and therefore might be trusted to do so again, is as requisite for the repentance of the exiled people, as their bitter experience of His curses upon their disobedience. There is, thus, no need to take these words, or the blessingby itself, as a gloss (as Steuern. and Marti do).

which I have set before thee Deuteronomy 4:8; Deuteronomy 11:26.

call them to mind Lit. bring back to thy heart. See on Deuteronomy 29:4.

hath driven thee Heb. hiddiah, in this sense used 11 times in Jer., but not so elsewhere in Deut.; the passive form occurs in Deuteronomy 30:4 below. For other applications of the root see Deuteronomy 13:13 (14), Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 20:19; Deuteronomy 22:1.

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