Deuteronomy 30:4 (DRB)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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.

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed: that thou mayst love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayst live.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "driven", "poles", "heaven", "lord", "fetch", "thee", and "back". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "driven", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "The Lord thy God will bring back..." into verse 5's "And will take thee to himself and...", so "thou" and "driven" 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 "thou" and "driven" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.