Deuteronomy 32:13-23

13 "He let them rule the highlands, and they ate what grew in the fields. They found wild honey among the rocks; their olive trees flourished in stony ground.
14 Their cows and goats gave plenty of milk; they had the best sheep, goats, and cattle, the finest wheat, and the choicest wine.
15 "The Lord's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.
16 Their idolatry made the Lord jealous; the evil they did made him angry.
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.

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.