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.”’

²⁸ “^(T)For they are a nation ^[f]destitute of counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.