rsv Deuteronomy:32:21-31 SEEK
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They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god ;
they have provoked me with their idols .
So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people ;
I will provoke them with a foolish nation .
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For a fire is kindled by my anger ,
and it burns to the depths of Sheol ,
devours the earth and its increase ,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains .
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And I will heap evils upon them ;
I will spend my arrows upon them ;
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they shall be wasted with hunger ,
and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence ;
and I will send the teeth of beasts against them ,
with venom of crawling things of the dust .
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In the open the sword shall bereave ,
and in the chambers shall be terror ,
destroying both young man and virgin ,
the sucking child with the man of gray hairs .
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I would have said , "
I will scatter them afar ,
I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men ,"
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had I not feared provocation by the enemy ,
lest their adversaries should judge amiss ,
lest they should say , "
Our hand is triumphant ,
the LORD has not wrought all this ."'
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For they are a nation void of counsel ,
and there is no understanding in them .
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If they were wise ,
they would understand this ,
they would discern their latter end !
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How should one chase a thousand ,
and two put ten thousand to flight ,
unless their Rock had sold them ,
and the LORD had given them up ?
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For their rock is not as our Rock ,
even our enemies themselves being judges .