Deuteronomy 32:19-35

English Standard Version

¹⁹^(A)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of ^(B)his sons and his daughters.
²⁰And he said, ^(C)‘I will hide my face from them;
    I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children in whom is no faithfulness.
²¹^(D)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger ^(E)with their idols.
So ^(F)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with ^(G)a foolish nation.
²²For ^(H)a fire is kindled by my anger,
    and it burns to ^(I)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³“‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
    ^(J)I will spend my arrows on them;
²⁴they shall be wasted with hunger,
    and devoured by plague
    and poisonous pestilence;
I will send ^(K)the teeth of beasts against them,
    with the venom of ^(L)things that crawl in the dust.
²⁵^(M)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
    and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
²⁶^(N)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
    ^(O)I will wipe them from human memory,”
²⁷had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^(P)“Our hand is triumphant,
    it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

²⁸“For they are a nation void of counsel,
    and there is ^(Q)no understanding in them.
²⁹^(R)If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would ^(S)discern their latter end!
³⁰How could ^(T)one have chased a thousand,
    and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock ^(U)had sold them,
    and the Lord had given them up?
³¹For ^(V)their rock is not as our Rock;
    ^(W)our enemies are by themselves.
³²For their vine ^(X)comes from the vine of Sodom
    and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of ^(Y)poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³their wine is the poison of ^(Z)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.

³⁴“‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
    ^(AA)sealed up in my treasuries?
³⁵^(AB)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,^[a]
    ^(AC)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for ^(AD)the day of their calamity is at hand,
    and their doom comes swiftly.’