Deuteronomy 31:19-30

Rotherham(i) 19 Now, therefore, write ye for you this Song, and teach it unto the sons of Israel, put it in their mouths,––that this Song may become for me, a witness, against the sons of Israel. 20 When I bring them upon the soil which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall eat and be filled, and wax fat, then will they turn away unto other gods and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out, then shall this Song respond to their face, as a witness, for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed, for I know their imagination, which they are forming today, ere yet I bring them into the land of which I sware unto their fathers.
22 Moses, therefore, wrote this Song, on that day,––and taught it unto the sons of Israel. 23 And he commanded Joshua, son of Nun, and said––Be firm and bold, for, thou, shalt bring the sons of Israel into the land which I have sworn to them,––and, I, will be with thee. 24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law, upon a scroll,––until he had finished them, 25 then Moses commanded the Levites, who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying: 26 Take this scroll of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God,––so shall it be there in thy midst as a witness. 27 For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck,––lo! while I am yet alive with you today, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death? 28 Call together unto me, all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,––and let me speak in their hearing these words, and let me take to witness against them the heavens and the earth. 29 For I know that, after my death, ye will, break faith, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you,––and calamity will befall you, in the afterpart of the days, because ye will do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him with the work of your own hands. 30 So Moses spake in the hearing of all the convocation of Israel the words of this Song, until they were ended:––