Deuteronomy 32:19–25

¹⁹Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned them,

because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²⁰So he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;

I will see what will be their end,

for they are a generation of perversity,

children in whom there is no faithfulness.^x

²¹They annoyed me with what is not a god;

they provoked me with their idols.

So I will make them jealous with those not a people,

with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

²²For a fire was kindled^y by my anger,

and it burned up to the depths of Sheol,^z

and it devoured the earth and its produce,

and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.

²³I will heap disasters upon them;

my arrows I will spend on them.

²⁴They will become weakened by famine,

and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence;

and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them,

with the poison of the creeping things in the dust;

²⁵From outside her boundaries the sword will make her childless,

and from inside, terror;

both for the young man and also the young woman,

the infant along with the gray-headed man.