Deuteronomy 32:19-28

New King James Version

¹⁹ “And^(A) when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
²⁰ And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
^(B)Children in whom is no faith.
^21 (C)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger ^(D)by their ^[a]foolish idols.
But ^(E)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
²² For ^(F)a fire is kindled in My anger,
And shall burn to the ^[b]lowest ^[c]hell;
It shall consume the earth with her increase,
And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³ ‘I will ^(G)heap disasters on them;
^(H)I will spend My arrows on them.
²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the ^(I)teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.
²⁵ The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
^26 (J)I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
²⁷ Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, ^(K)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

²⁸ “For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them.