Deuteronomy 31:17

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Summary

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

My anger

Psalm 90:11

I will forsake

Hide my face

Befall them

Nehemiah 9:32

Are not these

General references

Bible References

My anger

The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,

They have provoked My jealousy
with their so-called gods;
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will provoke their jealousy
with an inferior people;
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He handed them over to marauders who raided them. He sold them to the enemies around them, and they could no longer resist their enemies.

Pay homage to the Son or He will be angry
and you will perish in your rebellion,

for His anger may ignite at any moment.
All those who take refuge in Him are happy.

Who understands the power of Your anger?
Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.

I will forsake

“As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intention of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you.

“Now when these people or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you will respond to them: What is the burden? I will throw you away”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

Hide my face

He said: “I will hide My face from them;
I will see what will become of them,
for they are a perverse generation—
unfaithful children.

Why do You hide Your face
and consider me Your enemy?

Do not hide Your face from me;
do not turn Your servant away in anger.
You have been my helper;
do not leave me or abandon me,
God of my salvation.

Lord, when You showed Your favor,
You made me stand like a strong mountain;
when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your anger keep burning like fire?

When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.

I will wait for the Lord,
who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob.
I will wait for Him.

No one calls on Your name,
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of

our iniquity.

And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile on account of their iniquity, because they dealt unfaithfully with Me. Therefore, I hid My face from them and handed them over to their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

Befall them

So now, our God—the great, mighty,
and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant—
do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us,
our kings and leaders,
our priests and prophets,
our ancestors and all Your people,
from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.

Are not these

All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

Don’t go, because the Lord is not among you and you will be defeated by your enemies.

Gideon said to Him, “Please Sir, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about? They said, ‘Hasn’t the Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Why, Yahweh, do You make us stray from Your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear You.
Return, because of Your servants,
the tribes of Your heritage.

General references

He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

I will certainly hide My face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.

The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned My instruction that I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it.