Deuteronomy 32:26-38

English Standard Version

²⁶^(A)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
    ^(B)I will wipe them from human memory,”
²⁷had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^(C)“Our hand is triumphant,
    it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

²⁸“For they are a nation void of counsel,
    and there is ^(D)no understanding in them.
²⁹^(E)If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would ^(F)discern their latter end!
³⁰How could ^(G)one have chased a thousand,
    and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock ^(H)had sold them,
    and the Lord had given them up?
³¹For ^(I)their rock is not as our Rock;
    ^(J)our enemies are by themselves.
³²For their vine ^(K)comes from the vine of Sodom
    and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of ^(L)poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³their wine is the poison of ^(M)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.

³⁴“‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
    ^(N)sealed up in my treasuries?
³⁵^(O)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,^[a]
    ^(P)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for ^(Q)the day of their calamity is at hand,
    and their doom comes swiftly.’
³⁶For ^(R)the Lord will vindicate^[b] his people
    ^(S)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
    and there is none remaining, ^(T)bond or free.
³⁷Then he will say, ^(U)‘Where are their gods,
    ^(V)the rock in which they took refuge,
³⁸who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!