Deuteronomy 30:8 (DRB)

Passage

But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:

Nearby Context

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.

Deuteronomy 30:7 And he will turn all these curses upon thy enemies, and upon them that hate and persecute thee.

Deuteronomy 30:8 But thou shalt return, and hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and shalt do all the commandments which I command thee this day:

Deuteronomy 30:9 And the Lord thy God will make thee abound in all the works of thy hands, in the fruit of thy womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, in the fruitfulness of thy land, and in the plenty of all things. For the Lord will return to rejoice over thee in all good things, as he rejoiced in thy fathers:

Deuteronomy 30:10 Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep his precepts and ceremonies, which are written in this law: and return to the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "shalt", "return", "hear", "voice", "lord", and "commandments". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "shalt", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 7's "And he will turn all these curses..." into verse 9's "And the Lord thy God will make...", so "thou" and "shalt" 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 "shalt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.