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Deuteronomy 32:20-28
New American Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 32:20-28
New American Standard Bible
20 Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
(A)I will see what their end will be;
(B)For they are a perverse generation,
(C)Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.
21 (D)They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their [a](E)idols.
(F)So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
22 (G)For a fire has flared in My anger,
And it burns to the lowest part of [b]Sheol,
(H)And devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 ‘(I)I will add misfortunes to them;
(J)I will use up My arrows on them.
24 (K)They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by [c]plague
(L)And a bitter epidemic;
(M)And the teeth of beasts I will send against them,
(N)With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
25 (O)Outside the sword will make them childless,
And inside, terror—
(P)Both young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hair.
26 I would have said, “(Q)I will wipe them out,
(R)I will remove the mention of [d]their name from humanity,”
27 Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “(S)Our hand is [e]triumphant,
And the Lord has not performed all this.”’
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:21 Lit nonexistent things
- Deuteronomy 32:22 I.e., the netherworld
- Deuteronomy 32:24 Lit burning heat
- Deuteronomy 32:26 Lit them
- Deuteronomy 32:27 Lit high
- Deuteronomy 32:28 Lit perishing of
Deuteronomy 32:20-28
New International Version
Deuteronomy 32:20-28
New International Version
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)
23 “I will heap calamities(L) on them
and spend my arrows(M) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(N) against them,
consuming pestilence(O) and deadly plague;(P)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(Q)
the venom of vipers(R) that glide in the dust.(S)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror(T) will reign.(U)
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.(V)
26 I said I would scatter(W) them
and erase their name from human memory,(X)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand(Y)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”(Z)
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment(AA) in them.
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