Deuteronomy 31:14–23

¹⁴The Lord said to Moses, “The time of your death is coming soon. Call for Joshua. Both of you come to the tent of meeting, and I will give him his instructions.” Moses and Joshua came to the tent of meeting. ¹⁵Then the Lord appeared in a column of smoke at the entrance to the tent. 

¹⁶The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you are going to lie down in death with your ancestors. When these people enter the land and are living among the foreigners there, they will chase after foreign gods as though they were prostitutes. They will abandon me and reject the promise^bI made to them. ¹⁷On that day I will become angry with them. I will abandon them and turn away from them. They will be destroyed, and many terrible disasters will happen to them. On that day they will ask, ‘Haven’t these disasters happened to us because our God isn’t with us?’ ¹⁸On that day I will certainly turn away from them because of all the evil they’ve done in turning to other gods. 

¹⁹“Write down this song, teach it to the Israelites, and have them sing it. This song will be a witness for me against the Israelites. ²⁰I will bring them into the land that I swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey. When they have eaten all they want and have become fat,^cthey will turn to other gods and worship them. They will despise me and reject my promise. ²¹When many terrible disasters happen to them, this song will testify against them, because it will never be forgotten by their descendants. I know what their hearts are set on doing, even now before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.” ²²That day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites. 

²³The Lord gave this command to Joshua, son of Nun: “Be strong and courageous, because you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.”