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20 He said, “I will hide my face from them
    and watch to see how they end,
for they are a perverse generation,
    children who are unfaithful.
21 They have made me jealous by what is not a god,
    angered me with their worthless things;
I will make them jealous of those who are not a people,
I will anger them with a foolish nation.
22 My anger has kindled fire to flame,
    it burns down to the lowest level of Sheol,[a]
it devours the earth and its produce,
    it ignites the foundation of the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:22 Burns . . . to the lowest level of Sheol: Sheol is the abode of all the dead and known in the New Testament as Hades where only the wicked dead repose.

20 “I will hide my face(A) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(B)
    children who are unfaithful.(C)
21 They made me jealous(D) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(E)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(F)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(G)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(H)
It will devour(I) the earth and its harvests(J)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(K)

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