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Deuteronomy - ch 32 v 21 - 40
- They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
- A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
- I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
- They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.
- Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
- I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
- But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
- They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
- O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
- How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
- For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.
- Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.
- Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.
- Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?
- Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
- The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants : he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.
- And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?
- Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.
- See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
- I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.
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