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Deuteronomy 32:20-22
Contemporary English Version
Deuteronomy 32:20-22
Contemporary English Version
20 and said,
“You are unfaithful
and can't be trusted.
So I won't answer your prayers;
I'll just watch and see
what happens to you.
21 (A) You worshiped worthless idols,
and made me jealous
and angry!
Now I will send a cruel[a]
and worthless nation
to make you jealous and angry.
22 “My people, I will breathe out fire
that sends you down
to the world of the dead.
It will scorch your farmlands
and burn deep down
under the mountains.
Footnotes
- 32.21 cruel: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
Deuteronomy 32:20-22
New International Version
Deuteronomy 32:20-22
New International Version
20 “I will hide my face(A) from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(B)
children who are unfaithful.(C)
21 They made me jealous(D) by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.(E)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(F)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(G)
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(H)
It will devour(I) the earth and its harvests(J)
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(K)
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