Deuteronomy 32:19-44 »Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ »Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry. ²⁰ »He said: ‘I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are a devious and perverse generation. They are children who have no faith. ²¹ »They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry. ²² My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire. ²³ »I will heap distress on them! I will use my arrows on them. ²⁴ »They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust. ²⁵ »Outside the sword will bereave. Inside terror shall destroy both young man and virgin, babies and old man with gray hair. ²⁶ »I would have said: ‘I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.’ ²⁷ »I did not want their enemies to make me angry. I did not want their opponents to misunderstand and say: We won this victory! Jehovah did not do all this! ²⁸ »My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand. ²⁹ They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened. ³⁰ »Why were a thousand defeated by one? Why ten thousand by only two? Jehovah their God abandoned them! Their mighty God gave them up. ³¹ »Their rock is not like our rock! Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God. ³² »Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter. ³³ »Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras). ³⁴ »Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures? ³⁵ »Vengeance and retribution belong to me. (Vengeance is mine, I will repay.) Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things to come on them come quickly. ³⁶ »Jehovah will bring his people justice. He will have compassion on his servants. He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. ³⁷ »He will say: ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge? ³⁸ »Who ate the fat of their sacrifices? Who drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let them be your hiding place! ³⁹ »See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand. ⁴⁰ »Indeed, I lift up my hand to heaven, and say: As I live forever, ⁴¹ »I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on justice! I will render vengeance on my adversaries. I will repay those who hate me. ⁴² »I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword will devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the longhaired leaders of the enemy. ⁴³ »Rejoice you nations with his people. He will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance on his adversaries, and will atone for his land and his people.« ⁴⁴ Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.