Deuteronomy 32:21-35

English Standard Version

²³ “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
    ^(G)I will spend my arrows on them;
²⁴ they shall be wasted with hunger,
    and devoured by plague
    and poisonous pestilence;
I will send ^(H)the teeth of beasts against them,
    with the venom of ^(I)things that crawl in the dust.
^25 (J)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
    and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
^26 (K)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
    ^(L)I will wipe them from human memory,”
²⁷ had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^(M)“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 ^(N)no understanding in them.
^29 (O)If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would ^(P)discern their latter end!
³⁰ How could ^(Q)one have chased a thousand,
    and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock ^(R)had sold them,
    and the Lord had given them up?
³¹ For ^(S)their rock is not as our Rock;
    ^(T)our enemies are by themselves.
³² For their vine ^(U)comes from the vine of Sodom
    and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of ^(V)poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³ their wine is the poison of ^(W)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.

³⁴ “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
    ^(X)sealed up in my treasuries?
^35 (Y)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,^{[a]
    (Z)}for the time when their foot shall slip;
for ^(AA)the day of their calamity is at hand,
    and their doom comes swiftly.’