Deuteronomy 32:19–25

¹⁹The Lord saw this and rejected them, 

because his own sons and daughters had made him angry. 

²⁰He said, “I will turn away from them 

and find out what will happen to them. 

They are devious people, 

children who can’t be trusted. 

²¹They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods 

and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. 

So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous 

and a nation of godless fools to make them angry. 

²²My anger has started a fire 

that will burn to the depths of hell. 

It will consume the earth and its crops 

and set the foundations of the mountains on fire. 

²³I will bring one disaster after another on them. 

I will use up all my arrows on them. 

²⁴They will be starved by famines 

and ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics. 

I will send vicious animals against them 

along with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground. 

²⁵Foreign wars will kill off their children, 

and even at home there will be horrors. 

Young men and young women alike will die 

as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.