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The possibility of reconciliation with God and the return of His blessings through sincere repentance and obedience to the law. Deut.30:1. When all these words, the blessing and the curse, which I have spoken to you, have come upon you, and you have taken them to your heart among all the nations where the Lord your God has scattered you, Deut.30:2. and you will turn to the Lord your God and obey His voice, as I command you today, you and your sons with all your heart and with all your soul, Deut.30:3. Then the Lord your God will bring back your captives and have mercy on you, and will gather you again from all the nations among whom the Lord your God has scattered you. Deut.30:4. Though you be scattered [from one end of the sky] to the other end of the sky, the Lord your God will gather you from there, and from there he will take you, Deut.30:5. and [from there] the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers owned, and you will take possession of it, and he will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers; Deut.30:6. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, that you may love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. Deut.30:7. then the Lord your God will turn all these curses on your enemies and on those who hated you, who persecuted you, Deut.30:8. but you will turn and listen to the voice of the Lord [your God] and do all His commandments that I command you today; Deut.30:9. The Lord your God will give you abundant success in all the work of your hands, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, in the fruit of your land; for the Lord [your God] will rejoice over you again, doing good to you, as He rejoiced over your fathers, Deut.30:10. if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping [and doing all] His commandments and His statutes [and His laws] which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. The conversion of the Jews to God and their return to their homeland was immediately realized at the end of the Babylonian captivity. A more complete and significant conversion in the future is mysteriously predicted by Ap. Paul (Rom 11.1). Deut.30:11. For this commandment, which I command you today, is not inaccessible to you, nor far off; Deut.30:12. it is not in heaven so that one can say: “Who would ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, and let us hear it, and we would do it?” Deut.30:13. and it is not beyond the sea, so that one could say: “Who would go over the sea for us and bring it to us, and let us hear it, and we would do it?” Deut.30:14. but this word is very near to you: it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. The commandment of real love for God, neighbor, and oneself is inscribed on the tablets of the human heart by nature itself (Rom. 2.14, 15; cf. Rom. 10.6–8). You might be interested in: