¹⁶And Yahweh said to Moses, “Look, you are about to lie down with your ancestors,^y and this people will arise and they^z will play the prostitute after the foreign gods^a of the land to which they are going.^b ¹⁷And my anger shall flare up against them^c on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they^d shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find^e them,^f and they^g shall say on that day, ‘Is it not because our^h God is not in ourⁱ midst that these disasters have found^j us?’^k

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Footnotes

yOr “fathers”
zHebrew “he”
aLiterally “the gods of the foreigner/foreign person of the land”
bLiterally “which he is going to”
cLiterally “shall become my nose against it/him”
dHebrew “he”
eOr “encounter”
fHebrew “him”
gHebrew “he”
hHebrew “my” but represents all the people
iHebrew “my”
jOr “encountered”
kHebrew “me”

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them. Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

And the Lord said to Moses: “You are going to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake me and break the covenant I made with them. And in that day I will become angry with them and forsake them; I will hide my face from them, and they will be destroyed. Many disasters and calamities will come on them, and in that day they will ask, ‘Have not these disasters come on us because our God is not with us?’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon me and break the covenant I have made with them. My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die and join your ancestors. After you are gone, these people will begin to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land where they are going. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I have made with them. Then my anger will blaze forth against them. I will abandon them, hiding my face from them, and they will be devoured. Terrible trouble will come down on them, and on that day they will say, ‘These disasters have come down on us because God is no longer among us!’

KJV 1900King James Version

And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

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