Deuteronomy 32:19-43

19“Adonai saw, and He spurned His sons and His daughters out of vexation.

20He said, “I will hide My face from them, I want to see their hereafter. For they are an upside down generation, children with no faithfulness in them.

21They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them.

22For fire has ignited in My nostrils— it will burn to Sheol beneath, devour the earth and her produce, and scorch the foundations of mountains.

23I will heap calamities upon them. With My arrows I will finish them.

24Wasted by famine, ravaged by plague and pestilence so bitter, fangs of beasts I’ll let loose on them, with venom of creepers in the dust.

25Outside the sword deals death, and inside terror— to both young men and young women, infants, with men of gray hair.

26I would have said, ‘I will hack them to pieces, make the memory of them cease from mankind,’

27except I dread the taunt of the enemy, lest their foes might misconstrue— lest they say, ‘Our hand is held high, and Adonai has not done all this.’

28For they are a nation lacking counsel, among them there is no understanding.

29“If they were wise, they would discern this, they would understand their hereafter.

30How can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and Adonai had handed them over?

31Surely their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies judge.

32For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the terraces of Gomorrah. Its grapes are grapes of poison— bitter clusters on it.

33Venom of serpents is their wine— poison of vipers so cruel.

34Is it not stored up with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?

35Vengeance is Mine, and payback, for the time when their foot staggers. Surely their day of disaster is near— what is prepared rushes on them.

36For Adonai will judge His people— for His servants, He will relent when He sees that strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.

37He will say, ‘Where are their gods, the “rock” they took refuge in?

38Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libation? Let them rise up and help you and be a shelter over you!

39See now that I, I am He! There are no other gods beside Me. I bring death and give life, I have wounded but I will heal, and none can rescue from My hand.’

40“Yes, I lift My hand up to heaven and say, ‘As I Myself live forever,

41when I sharpen My lightning sword and My hand seizes it in judgment, I will return vengeance on My foes, and those who hate Me I will pay back.

42I will make My arrows drunk from blood, and My sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slain and the captive, the head of the leaders of the enemy.’

43Make His people rejoice, O nations, for He will avenge the blood of His servants. He will return vengeance on His foes, and atone for the land of His people.”