Deuteronomy 8:20
Good News Translation
If you do not obey the LORD, then you will be destroyed just like those nations that he is going to destroy as you advance.

New Revised Standard Version
Like the nations that the LORD is destroying before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

New American Bible
Like the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so shall you too perish for not listening to the voice of the LORD, your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

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As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.

so shall ye perish

2 Chronicles 36:16,17 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy. . . .

Daniel 9:11,12 And all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have turned away from hearing thy voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written in the book of Moses, the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have sinned against him. . . .

Context
Remember the LORD Your God
19But if thou forget the Lord thy God, and follow strange gods, and serve and adore them: behold now I foretell thee that thou shalt utterly perish. 20As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call this day heaven and earth to witness, that you shall quickly perish out of the land, which, when you have passed over the Jordan, you shall possess. You shall not dwell therein long, but the Lord will destroy you,

Psalm 10:16
The Lord shall reign to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.

Ezekiel 5:5
Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her.

Deuteronomy 8:19
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