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20 So the Lord said:[a]
    I will hide my face from them,
    until I see what their final condition will be,
    because they are a twisted generation,
    children who cannot be trusted.

21 They have made me jealous with their non-gods.
They have provoked me with their useless things.
So I will make them jealous by a non-people.
By a foolish nation I will provoke them.
22 For a fire has been ignited by my anger,
and it burns to the depths of hell.[b]
It devours the earth and its produce.
It sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:20 There are frequent unmarked changes of speaker in Hebrew poetry. In this poem the shifts from Moses’ words to the Lord’s words are indicated in the increased indentation.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:22 Hebrew sheol