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Berean Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 32:19–21

19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Read more context — Deuteronomy 32:19–27

32:19When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

32:20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

32:23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

32:24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

32:25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

32:27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

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