Deuteronomy 8:11 (DBY)

Passage

Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day;

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 8:9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper.

Deuteronomy 8:10 And thou shalt eat and be filled, and shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

Deuteronomy 8:11 Beware that thou forget not Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day;

Deuteronomy 8:12 lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,

Deuteronomy 8:13 and thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "beware", "thou", "forget", "jehovah", "keeping", "commandments", "ordinances", and "statutes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "beware" and "thou", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "And thou shalt eat and be filled..." into verse 12's "lest when thou hast eaten and art...", so "beware" and "thou" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "beware" and "thou" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.