⁷ For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, ^(A)who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, ^(B)I the Lord will answer him myself. ⁸ And ^(C)I will set my face against that man; I ^(D)will make him a sign and a byword ^(E)and cut him off from the midst of my people, ^(F)and you shall know that I am the Lord. ⁹ And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, ^(G)I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

²⁰ For it was the Lord's doing ^(A)to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, ^(B)just as the Lord commanded Moses.

³⁰ But ^(A)Sihon the king of ^(B)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^(C)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.