Deuteronomy 32:19–25

¹⁹When the Lord saw that, he turned away from them.

His sons and daughters made him angry.

²⁰“I will turn my face away from them,” he said.

“I will see what will happen to them in the end.

They are sinful people.

They are unfaithful children.

²¹They made me jealous by serving what is not even a god.

They made me angry by worshiping worthless statues of gods.

I will use people who are not a nation to make them jealous.

I will use a nation that has no understanding to make them angry.

²²My anger has started a fire.

It burns down to the kingdom of the dead.

It will eat up the earth and its crops.

It will set the base of the mountains on fire.

²³“I will pile troubles on my people.

I will shoot all of my arrows at them.

²⁴I will send them hunger. It will make them weak.

I will send terrible sickness. I will send deadly plagues.

I will send wild animals that will tear them apart.

Snakes that glide through the dust will bite them.

²⁵In the streets their children will be killed with swords.

Their homes will be filled with terror.

Young men and women will die.

Babies and old people will die.