16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

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16 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you are about to lie down with your ancestors,[a] and this people will arise and they[b] will play the prostitute after the foreign gods[c] of the land to which they are going.[d] 17 And my anger shall flare up against them[e] on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they[f] shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find[g] them,[h] and they[i] shall say on that day, ‘Is it not because our[j] God is not in our[k] midst that these disasters have found[l] us?’[m] 18 But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because of all of the evil that they[n] did because they[o] turned to other gods.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 31:16 Or “fathers”
  2. Deuteronomy 31:16 Hebrew “he”
  3. Deuteronomy 31:16 Literally “the gods of the foreigner/foreign person of the land”
  4. Deuteronomy 31:16 Literally “which he is going to”
  5. Deuteronomy 31:17 Literally “shall become my nose against it/him”
  6. Deuteronomy 31:17 Hebrew “he”
  7. Deuteronomy 31:17 Or “encounter”
  8. Deuteronomy 31:17 Hebrew “him”
  9. Deuteronomy 31:17 Hebrew “he”
  10. Deuteronomy 31:17 Hebrew “my” but represents all the people
  11. Deuteronomy 31:17 Hebrew “my”
  12. Deuteronomy 31:17 Or “encountered”
  13. Deuteronomy 31:17 Hebrew “me”
  14. Deuteronomy 31:18 Hebrew “he”
  15. Deuteronomy 31:18 Hebrew “he”