Deuteronomy 32:18-25

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¹⁸ They spurned the Rock who had made them,

Forgetting it was God who had given them birth.

¹⁹ God saw what they were doing,

And detested them!

His sons and daughters were insulting him.

²⁰ He said, ‘I will abandon them;

See what happens to them then!

For they are a stubborn, faithless generation.

²¹ They have made me very jealous of their idols,

Which are not gods at all.

Now I, in turn, will make them jealous

By giving my affections

To the foolish Gentile nations of the world.

²² For my anger has kindled a fire

That burns to the depths of the underworld,

Consuming the earth and all of its crops,

And setting its mountains on fire.

²³ I will heap evils upon them

And shoot them down with my arrows.

²⁴ I will waste them with hunger,

Burning fever, and fatal disease.

I will devour them! I will set wild beasts upon them,

To rip them apart with their teeth;

And deadly serpents

Crawling in the dust.

²⁵ Outside, the enemies’ sword—

Inside, the plague^[a]—

Shall terrorize young men and girls alike;

The baby nursing at the breast,

And aged men.