19 I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against YOU today,+ that I have put life and death before you,+ the blessing+ and the malediction;+ and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive,+ you and your offspring,+

28 Congregate to me all the older men of YOUR tribes and YOUR officers,+ and let me speak in their hearing these words, and let me take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.+

2 Hear,+ O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for Jehovah himself has spoken: “Sons I have brought up and raised,+ but they themselves have revolted* against me.+