Deuteronomy 30:3 (DRB)

Passage

The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 30:1 Now when all these things shall be come upon thee, the blessing or the curse, which I have set forth before thee, and thou shalt be touched with repentance of thy heart among all the nations, into which the Lord thy God shall have scattered thee,

Deuteronomy 30:2 And shalt return to him, and obey his commandments, as I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

Deuteronomy 30:3 The Lord thy God will bring back again thy captivity, and will have mercy on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations, into which he scattered thee before.

Deuteronomy 30:4 If thou be driven as far as the poles of heaven, the Lord thy God will fetch thee back from hence,

Deuteronomy 30:5 And will take thee to himself, and bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it: and blessing thee, he will make thee more numerous than were thy fathers.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "mercy", "lord", "bring", "back", "again", "captivity", "thee", and "gather". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "mercy" and "lord", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 2's "And shalt return to him and obey..." into verse 4's "If thou be driven as far as...", so "mercy" and "lord" 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 "mercy" and "lord" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.