Deuteronomy 32:17-27

17 They sacrificed to gods that are not real, 1 new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.
18 They forgot their God, their mighty savior, the one who had given them life.
19 "When the Lord saw this, he was angry and rejected his sons and daughters.
20 "I will no longer help them,' he said; "then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.
21 With their idols they have made me angry, 2 jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
22 My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.
23 " "I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.
24 They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.
25 War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.
26 I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.
27 But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'

Cross References 2

  • 1. 32.171 Corinthians 10.20.
  • 2. 32.21 a1 Corinthians 10.22; bRomans 10.19.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. the world below: [This refers to the world of the dead.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.