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Deuteronomy 32:19-33

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19“The Lord saw this, and spurned them

Because of the provocation by His sons and daughters.

20“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,

I will see what their end will be;

For they are a perverse generation,

Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.

21‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;

They have provoked Me to anger with their idols.

So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

22For a fire has flared in My anger,

And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol,

And devours the earth with its yield,

And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23‘I will add misfortunes to them;

I will use up My arrows on them.

24‘They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by plague

And a bitter epidemic;

And the teeth of beasts I will send against them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

25‘Outside the sword will make them childless,

And inside, terror—

Both young man and virgin,

The nursing child with the man of gray hair.

26‘I would have said, “I will wipe them out,

I will remove the mention of their name from humanity,”

27Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,

That their adversaries would misjudge,

That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant,

And the Lord has not performed all this.” ’

28“For they are a nation destitute of counsel,

And there is no understanding in them.

29“If only they were wise and they understood this;

If only they would discern their future!

30“How could one chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Unless their Rock had sold them,

And the Lord had given them up?

31“Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock;

Even our enemies themselves judge this.

32“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,

And from the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of poison,

Their clusters, bitter.

33“Their wine is the venom of serpents,

And the deadly poison of vipers.