rsv Deuteronomy:32:21-31
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:21 @ 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:22 @ 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:23 @ "`And I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them;
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:24 @ 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:25 @ 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:26 @ I would have said, "I will scatter them afar, I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,"
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:27 @ 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."'
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:28 @ "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:29 @ If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end!
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:30 @ 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?
rsv@Deuteronomy:32:31 @ For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.