Deuteronomy 32:18-25

Common English Bible

¹⁸ You deserted^[a] the rock that sired you;
    you forgot the God who gave birth to you!
¹⁹ The Lord saw this and rejected
    out of aggravation his sons and his daughters.^[b]
20 He said: I will hide my face from them—
    I will see what becomes of them—
        because they are a confused generation;
        they are children lacking loyalty.
²¹ They provoked me with “no-gods,”
    aggravated me with their pieces of junk.
So I am going to provoke them with “No-People,”
    aggravate them with a nation of fools.
²² A fire burns in me—
    it will blaze to the depths of the grave;^[c]
    it will destroy the land and its crops;
    it will blacken the base of the mountains.
²³ I’ll throw^[d] on them disaster after disaster;
    I’ll destroy them with my arrows:
²⁴     devastating hunger, consuming plague, bitter sickness.
I’ll send animal fangs after them,
    venom from dust crawlers too.
²⁵ Outside, in the streets, the sword will bereave!
    Inside, in the safest room, there will be terror
        for young men and women,
        nursing baby and senior citizen.