16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will 2rest with your fathers; and this people will drise and eplay the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will fforsake Me and gbreak My covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then My anger shall be haroused against them in that day, and iI will forsake them, and I will jhide My face from them, and they shall be 3devoured. And many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, k‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is lnot among us?’ 18 And mI will surely hide My face in that day because of all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.

19 “Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be na witness for Me against the children of Israel. 20 When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves oand grown fat, pthen they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant. 21 Then it shall be, qwhen many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants, for rI know the inclination sof their behavior today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them.”