Daniel 9:11

New Living Translation

¹¹All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice.

“So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin.

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Daniel 9:11

New International Version

¹¹All Israel has transgressed^(A) your law^(B) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses^(C) and sworn judgments^(D) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned^(E) against you.

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Jeremiah 8:5-10

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⁵Then why do these people stay on their self-destructive path?
    Why do the people of Jerusalem refuse to turn back?
They cling tightly to their lies
    and will not turn around.
⁶I listen to their conversations
    and don’t hear a word of truth.
Is anyone sorry for doing wrong?
    Does anyone say, “What a terrible thing I have done”?
No! All are running down the path of sin
    as swiftly as a horse galloping into battle!
⁷Even the stork that flies across the sky
    knows the time of her migration,
as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane.^[a]
    They all return at the proper time each year.
But not my people!
    They do not know the Lord’s laws.

⁸“‘How can you say, “We are wise because we have the word of the Lord,”
    when your teachers have twisted it by writing lies?
⁹These wise teachers will fall
    into the trap of their own foolishness,
for they have rejected the word of the Lord.
    Are they so wise after all?
¹⁰I will give their wives to others
    and their farms to strangers.
From the least to the greatest,
    their lives are ruled by greed.
Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that.
    They are all frauds.

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8:7 The identification of some of these birds is uncertain.

Jeremiah 8:5-10

New International Version

⁵Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;^(A)
    they refuse to return.^(B)
⁶I have listened^(C) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(D) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(E)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(F)
    the requirements of the Lord.

⁸“‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law^(G) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?
⁹The wise^(H) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed^(I) and trapped.^(J)
Since they have rejected the word^(K) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom^(L) do they have?
¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to other men
    and their fields to new owners.^(M)
From the least to the greatest,
    all are greedy for gain;^(N)
prophets^(O) and priests alike,
    all practice deceit.^(P)

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Isaiah 1:4-6

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⁴Oh, what a sinful nation they are—
    loaded down with a burden of guilt.
They are evil people,
    corrupt children who have rejected the Lord.
They have despised the Holy One of Israel
    and turned their backs on him.

⁵Why do you continue to invite punishment?
    Must you rebel forever?
Your head is injured,
    and your heart is sick.
⁶You are battered from head to foot—
    covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds—
    without any soothing ointments or bandages.

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Isaiah 1:4-6

New International Version

⁴Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,^(A)
a brood of evildoers,^(B)
    children given to corruption!^(C)
They have forsaken^(D) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One^(E) of Israel
    and turned their backs^(F) on him.

⁵Why should you be beaten^(G) anymore?
    Why do you persist^(H) in rebellion?^(I)
Your whole head is injured,
    your whole heart^(J) afflicted.^(K)
⁶From the sole of your foot to the top of your head^(L)
    there is no soundness^(M)—
only wounds and welts^(N)
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged^(O)
    or soothed with olive oil.^(P)

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Deuteronomy 28:15-68

New Living Translation

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵“But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you:

¹⁶Your towns and your fields
    will be cursed.
¹⁷Your fruit baskets and breadboards
    will be cursed.
¹⁸Your children and your crops
    will be cursed.
The offspring of your herds and flocks
    will be cursed.
¹⁹Wherever you go and whatever you do,
    you will be cursed.

²⁰“The Lord himself will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in everything you do, until at last you are completely destroyed for doing evil and abandoning me. ²¹The Lord will afflict you with diseases until none of you are left in the land you are about to enter and occupy. ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die. ²³The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron. ²⁴The Lord will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.

²⁵“The Lord will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶Your corpses will be food for all the scavenging birds and wild animals, and no one will be there to chase them away.

²⁷“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, scurvy, and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. ²⁸The Lord will strike you with madness, blindness, and panic. ²⁹You will grope around in broad daylight like a blind person groping in the darkness, but you will not find your way. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will come to save you.

³⁰“You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will sleep with her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit. ³¹Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you will not eat a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be taken from you, never to be returned. Your sheep and goats will be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you. ³²You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break for them, but you won’t be able to help them. ³³A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment. ³⁴You will go mad because of all the tragedy you see around you. ³⁵The Lord will cover your knees and legs with incurable boils. In fact, you will be covered from head to foot.

³⁶“The Lord will exile you and your king to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. There in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone! ³⁷You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the Lord sends you.

³⁸“You will plant much but harvest little, for locusts will eat your crops. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and care for them, but you will not drink the wine or eat the grapes, for worms will destroy the vines. ⁴⁰You will grow olive trees throughout your land, but you will never use the olive oil, for the fruit will drop before it ripens. ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters, but you will lose them, for they will be led away into captivity. ⁴²Swarms of insects will destroy your trees and crops.

⁴³“The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker. ⁴⁴They will lend money to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, and you will be the tail!

⁴⁵“If you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and to obey the commands and decrees he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed. ⁴⁶These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever. ⁴⁷If you do not serve the Lord your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received, ⁴⁸you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. The Lord will put an iron yoke on your neck, oppressing you harshly until he has destroyed you.

⁴⁹“The Lord will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like a vulture. It is a nation whose language you do not understand, ⁵⁰a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young. ⁵¹Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will be destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, and you will starve to death. ⁵²They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land—the walls you trusted to protect you—are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the Lord your God has given you.

⁵³“The siege and terrible distress of the enemy’s attack will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you. ⁵⁴The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children. ⁵⁵He will refuse to share with them the flesh he is devouring—the flesh of one of his own children—because he has nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. ⁵⁶The most tender and delicate woman among you—so delicate she would not so much as touch the ground with her foot—will be selfish toward the husband she loves and toward her own son or daughter. ⁵⁷She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.

⁵⁸“If you refuse to obey all the words of instruction that are written in this book, and if you do not fear the glorious and awesome name of the Lord your God, ⁵⁹then the Lord will overwhelm you and your children with indescribable plagues. These plagues will be intense and without relief, making you miserable and unbearably sick. ⁶⁰He will afflict you with all the diseases of Egypt that you feared so much, and you will have no relief. ⁶¹The Lord will afflict you with every sickness and plague there is, even those not mentioned in this Book of Instruction, until you are destroyed. ⁶²Though you become as numerous as the stars in the sky, few of you will be left because you would not listen to the Lord your God.

⁶³“Just as the Lord has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the Lord will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy. ⁶⁴For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship foreign gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods made of wood and stone! ⁶⁵There among those nations you will find no peace or place to rest. And the Lord will cause your heart to tremble, your eyesight to fail, and your soul to despair. ⁶⁶Your life will constantly hang in the balance. You will live night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive. ⁶⁷In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were night!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you. ⁶⁸Then the Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, to a destination I promised you would never see again. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will buy you.”

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Deuteronomy 28:15-68

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Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵However, if you do not obey^(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(C)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.^(D)

¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.^(E)

¹⁸The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.^(F)

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^(G)

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^(H) confusion and rebuke^(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(J) because of the evil^(K) you have done in forsaking him.^[a] ²¹The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.^(L) ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(M) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(N) with blight^(O) and mildew, which will plague^(P) you until you perish.^(Q) ²³The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^(R) ²⁴The Lord will turn the rain^(S) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

²⁵The Lord will cause you to be defeated^(T) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,^(U) and you will become a thing of horror^(V) to all the kingdoms on earth.^(W) ²⁶Your carcasses will be food for all the birds^(X) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.^(Y) ²⁷The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt^(Z) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. ²⁸The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. ²⁹At midday you will grope^(AA) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue^(AB) you.

³⁰You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.^(AC) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.^(AD) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.^(AE) ³¹Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. ³²Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,^(AF) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. ³³A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression^(AG) all your days.^(AH) ³⁴The sights you see will drive you mad.^(AI) ³⁵The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils^(AJ) that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.^(AK)

³⁶The Lord will drive you and the king^(AL) you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors.^(AM) There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.^(AN) ³⁷You will become a thing of horror,^(AO) a byword^(AP) and an object of ridicule^(AQ) among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.^(AR)

³⁸You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little,^(AS) because locusts^(AT) will devour^(AU) it. ³⁹You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine^(AV) or gather the grapes, because worms will eat^(AW) them.^(AX) ⁴⁰You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.^(AY) ⁴¹You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.^(AZ) ⁴²Swarms of locusts^(BA) will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

⁴³The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.^(BB) ⁴⁴They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them.^(BC) They will be the head, but you will be the tail.^(BD)

⁴⁵All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you^(BE) until you are destroyed,^(BF) because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. ⁴⁶They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever.^(BG) ⁴⁷Because you did not serve^(BH) the Lord your God joyfully and gladly^(BI) in the time of prosperity, ⁴⁸therefore in hunger and thirst,^(BJ) in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke^(BK) on your neck^(BL) until he has destroyed you.

⁴⁹The Lord will bring a nation against you^(BM) from far away, from the ends of the earth,^(BN) like an eagle^(BO) swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand,^(BP) ⁵⁰a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old^(BQ) or pity for the young. ⁵¹They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine^(BR) or olive oil,^(BS) nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.^(BT) ⁵²They will lay siege^(BU) to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.^(BV)

⁵³Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.^(BW) ⁵⁴Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, ⁵⁵and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.^(BX) ⁵⁶The most gentle and sensitive^(BY) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter^(BZ) ⁵⁷the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them^(CA) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

⁵⁸If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law,^(CB) which are written in this book, and do not revere^(CC) this glorious and awesome name^(CD)—the Lord your God— ⁵⁹the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. ⁶⁰He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt^(CE) that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. ⁶¹The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law,^(CF) until you are destroyed.^(CG) ⁶²You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky^(CH) will be left but few^(CI) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. ⁶³Just as it pleased^(CJ) the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please^(CK) him to ruin and destroy you.^(CL) You will be uprooted^(CM) from the land you are entering to possess.

⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter^(CN) you among all nations,^(CO) from one end of the earth to the other.^(CP) There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.^(CQ) ⁶⁵Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place^(CR) for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes^(CS) weary with longing, and a despairing heart.^(CT) ⁶⁶You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. ⁶⁷In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.^(CU) ⁶⁸The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again.^(CV) There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me

Ezekiel 22:26-31

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²⁶Your priests have violated my instructions and defiled my holy things. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that I am dishonored among them. ²⁷Your leaders are like wolves who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people’s lives for money! ²⁸And your prophets cover up for them by announcing false visions and making lying predictions. They say, ‘My message is from the Sovereign Lord,’ when the Lord hasn’t spoken a single word to them. ²⁹Even common people oppress the poor, rob the needy, and deprive foreigners of justice.

³⁰“I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one. ³¹So now I will pour out my fury on them, consuming them with the fire of my anger. I will heap on their heads the full penalty for all their sins. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

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Ezekiel 22:26-31

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²⁶Her priests do violence to my law^(A) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;^(B) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;^(C) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned^(D) among them.^(E) ²⁷Her officials^(F) within her are like wolves^(G) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people^(H) to make unjust gain.^(I) ²⁸Her prophets whitewash^(J) these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations.^(K) They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.^(L) ²⁹The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;^(M) they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner,^(N) denying them justice.^(O)

³⁰“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall^(P) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.^(Q) ³¹So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,^(R) bringing down^(S) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(T)”

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Jeremiah 9:26

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²⁶the Egyptians, Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, the people who live in the desert in remote places,^[a] and yes, even the people of Judah. And like all these pagan nations, the people of Israel also have uncircumcised hearts.”

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9:26 Or in the desert and clip the corners of their hair.

Jeremiah 9:26

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²⁶Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.^[a]^(A) For all these nations are really uncircumcised,^(B) and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.^(C)”

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Jeremiah 9:26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads

2 Kings 17:18-23

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¹⁸Because the Lord was very angry with Israel, he swept them away from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained in the land. ¹⁹But even the people of Judah refused to obey the commands of the Lord their God, for they followed the evil practices that Israel had introduced. ²⁰The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel. He punished them by handing them over to their attackers until he had banished Israel from his presence.

²¹For when the Lord^[a] tore Israel away from the kingdom of David, they chose Jeroboam son of Nebat as their king. But Jeroboam drew Israel away from following the Lord and made them commit a great sin. ²²And the people of Israel persisted in all the evil ways of Jeroboam. They did not turn from these sins ²³until the Lord finally swept them away from his presence, just as all his prophets had warned. So Israel was exiled from their land to Assyria, where they remain to this day.

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17:21 Hebrew he; compare 1 Kgs 11:31-32.

2 Kings 17:18-23

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¹⁸So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence.^(A) Only the tribe of Judah was left, ¹⁹and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.^(B) ²⁰Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers,^(C) until he thrust them from his presence.^(D)

²¹When he tore^(E) Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king.^(F) Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the Lord and caused them to commit a great sin.^(G) ²²The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them ²³until the Lord removed them from his presence,^(H) as he had warned^(I) through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland^(J) into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.

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Deuteronomy 32:19-42

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¹⁹“The Lord saw this and drew back,
    provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
²⁰He said, ‘I will abandon them;
    then see what becomes of them.
For they are a twisted generation,
    children without integrity.
²¹They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;
    they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;
    I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
²²For my anger blazes forth like fire
    and burns to the depths of the grave.^[a]
It devours the earth and all its crops
    and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
²³I will heap disasters upon them
    and shoot them down with my arrows.
²⁴I will weaken them with famine,
    burning fever, and deadly disease.
I will send the fangs of wild beasts
    and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
²⁵Outside, the sword will bring death,
    and inside, terror will strike
both young men and young women,
    both infants and the aged.
²⁶I would have annihilated them,
    wiping out even the memory of them.
²⁷But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy,
    who might misunderstand and say,
“Our own power has triumphed!
    The Lord had nothing to do with this!”’

²⁸“But Israel is a senseless nation;
    the people are foolish, without understanding.
²⁹Oh, that they were wise and could understand this!
    Oh, that they might know their fate!
³⁰How could one person chase a thousand of them,
    and two people put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
    unless the Lord had given them up?
³¹But the rock of our enemies is not like our Rock,
    as even they recognize.^[b]
³²Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom,
    from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison,
    and their clusters are bitter.
³³Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.

³⁴“The Lord says, ‘Am I not storing up these things,
    sealing them away in my treasury?
³⁵I will take revenge; I will pay them back.
    In due time their feet will slip.
Their day of disaster will arrive,
    and their destiny will overtake them.’

³⁶“Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people,
    and he will change his mind about^[c] his servants,
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave or free.
³⁷Then he will ask, ‘Where are their gods,
    the rocks they fled to for refuge?
³⁸Where now are those gods,
    who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their offerings?
Let those gods arise and help you!
    Let them provide you with shelter!
³⁹Look now; I myself am he!
    There is no other god but me!
I am the one who kills and gives life;
    I am the one who wounds and heals;
    no one can be rescued from my powerful hand!
⁴⁰Now I raise my hand to heaven
    and declare, “As surely as I live,
⁴¹when I sharpen my flashing sword
    and begin to carry out justice,
I will take revenge on my enemies
    and repay those who reject me.
⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and my sword will devour flesh—
the blood of the slaughtered and the captives,
    and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’

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32:22 Hebrew of Sheol.
32:31 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Greek version reads our enemies are fools.
32:36 Or will take revenge for.

Deuteronomy 32:19-42

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¹⁹The Lord saw this and rejected them^(A)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.^(B)
²⁰“I will hide my face^(C) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,^(D)
    children who are unfaithful.^(E)
²¹They made me jealous^(F) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.^(G)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.^(H)
²²For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,^(I)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.^(J)
It will devour^(K) the earth and its harvests^(L)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.^(M)

²³“I will heap calamities^(N) on them
    and spend my arrows^(O) against them.
²⁴I will send wasting famine^(P) against them,
    consuming pestilence^(Q) and deadly plague;^(R)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,^(S)
    the venom of vipers^(T) that glide in the dust.^(U)
²⁵In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror^(V) will reign.^(W)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.^(X)
²⁶I said I would scatter^(Y) them
    and erase their name from human memory,^(Z)
²⁷but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand^(AA)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”^(AB)

²⁸They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment^(AC) in them.
²⁹If only they were wise and would understand this^(AD)
    and discern what their end will be!^(AE)
³⁰How could one man chase a thousand,
    or two put ten thousand to flight,^(AF)
unless their Rock had sold them,^(AG)
    unless the Lord had given them up?^(AH)
³¹For their rock is not like our Rock,^(AI)
    as even our enemies concede.^(AJ)
³²Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom^(AK)
    and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,^(AL)
    and their clusters with bitterness.^(AM)
³³Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.^(AN)

³⁴“Have I not kept this in reserve
    and sealed it in my vaults?^(AO)
³⁵It is mine to avenge;^(AP) I will repay.^(AQ)
    In due time their foot will slip;^(AR)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.^(AS)”

³⁶The Lord will vindicate his people^(AT)
    and relent^(AU) concerning his servants^(AV)
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave^(AW) or free.^[a]
³⁷He will say: “Now where are their gods,
    the rock they took refuge in,^(AX)
³⁸the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offerings?^(AY)
Let them rise up to help you!
    Let them give you shelter!

³⁹“See now that I myself am he!^(AZ)
    There is no god besides me.^(BA)
I put to death^(BB) and I bring to life,^(BC)
    I have wounded and I will heal,^(BD)
    and no one can deliver out of my hand.^(BE)
⁴⁰I lift my hand^(BF) to heaven and solemnly swear:
    As surely as I live forever,^(BG)
⁴¹when I sharpen my flashing sword^(BH)
    and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance^(BI) on my adversaries
    and repay those who hate me.^(BJ)
⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood,^(BK)
    while my sword devours flesh:^(BL)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
    the heads of the enemy leaders.”

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 32:36 Or and they are without a ruler or leader

Deuteronomy 31:17-18

New Living Translation

¹⁷Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!’ ¹⁸At that time I will hide my face from them on account of all the evil they commit by worshiping other gods.

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Deuteronomy 31:17-18

New International Version

¹⁷And in that day I will become angry^(A) with them and forsake^(B) them; I will hide^(C) my face^(D) from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters^(E) and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’^(F) ¹⁸And I will certainly hide my face in that day because of all their wickedness in turning to other gods.

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Deuteronomy 30:17-19

New Living Translation

¹⁷“But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods, ¹⁸then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.

¹⁹“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

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Deuteronomy 30:17-19

New International Version

¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ¹⁸I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed.^(A) You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

¹⁹This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you^(B) that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.^(C) Now choose life, so that you and your children may live

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Deuteronomy 29:20-29

New Living Translation

²⁰The Lord will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the Lord will erase their names from under heaven. ²¹The Lord will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the curses of the covenant recorded in this Book of Instruction.

²²“Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the Lord inflicts on it. ²³They will exclaim, ‘The whole land is devastated by sulfur and salt. It is a wasteland with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It is like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger.’

²⁴“And all the surrounding nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why was he so angry?’

²⁵“And the answer will be, ‘This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the Lord. ²⁷That is why the Lord’s anger has burned against this land, bringing down on it every curse recorded in this book. ²⁸In great anger and fury the Lord uprooted his people from their land and banished them to another land, where they still live today!’

²⁹“The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.

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Deuteronomy 29:20-29

New International Version

²⁰The Lord will never be willing to forgive^(A) them; his wrath and zeal^(B) will burn^(C) against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot^(D) out their names from under heaven. ²¹The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster,^(E) according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.^(F)

²²Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it.^(G) ²³The whole land will be a burning waste^(H) of salt^(I) and sulfur—nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing on it. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,^(J) Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in fierce anger.^(K) ²⁴All the nations will ask: “Why has the Lord done this to this land?^(L) Why this fierce, burning anger?”

²⁵And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.^(M) ²⁶They went off and worshiped other gods and bowed down to them, gods they did not know, gods he had not given them. ²⁷Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against this land, so that he brought on it all the curses written in this book.^(N) ²⁸In furious anger and in great wrath^(O) the Lord uprooted^(P) them from their land and thrust them into another land, as it is now.”

²⁹The secret things belong to the Lord our God,^(Q) but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.^(R)

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Deuteronomy 27:15-26

New Living Translation

¹⁵‘Cursed is anyone who carves or casts an idol and secretly sets it up. These idols, the work of craftsmen, are detestable to the Lord.’