Deuteronomy 32:16–29

16  mThey provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,

With abominations provoked they him to anger.

17  nThey sacrificed unto devils, ||not to God;

To gods whom they knew not,

To new gods that came newly up,

Whom your fathers feared not.

18  Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful,

And hast oforgotten God that formed thee.

19  pAnd when the Lord saw it, he ||abhorred them,

Because of the provoking of qhis sons, and of his daughters.

20  And he said, rI will hide my face from them,

I will see what their end shall be:

For they are a svery froward generation,

Children in whom is no faith.

21  tThey have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;

They have provoked me to anger uwith their vanities:

And xI will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22  For ya fire is kindled in mine anger,

And ||shall burn unto the lowest hell,

And z||shall consume the earth with her increase,

And set on fire zthe foundations of the mountains.

23  I will heap mischiefs upon them;

aI will spend mine arrows upon them.

24  They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with †burning heat,

And with bitter destruction:

I will also send bthe teeth of beasts upon them,

With the poison cof serpents of the dust.

25  dThe sword without,

And terror †within, shall †destroy

Both the young man and the virgin,

The suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26  eI said, I would scatter them into corners,

I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

27  Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries fshould behave themselves strangely,

And lest they should gsay, ||Our hand is high,

And the Lord hath not done all this.

28  For they are a nation void of counsel,

hNeither is there any understanding in them.

29  iO that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider jtheir latter end!