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

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Bible References

My anger

Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and / His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.

They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

The anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel. He delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them to their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed (happy) are all who take refuge (put trust) in him.

Who understands the power of your anger, and your fury according to the reverence that is due you?

I will forsake

You my son Solomon, learn to know your father's God. Serve Jehovah wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought we have. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. On the other hand if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.

Azariah went to Asa and said: Listen to me Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serve him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

Jehovah said to me: Jeremiah, when one of my people or a prophet or a priest asks you, what is Jehovah's message? You are to say: 'You are a burden to Jehovah, and he is going to get rid of you.'

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them until no man is left. Yes, woe to them even when I depart from them!

Hide my face

He said: 'I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are a devious and perverse generation. They are children who have no faith.

Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?

Do not hide your face from me. Do not angrily turn me away. You have been my help. Do not leave me! Do not abandon me, O God of my salvation!

By your favor, O Jehovah, you made my mountain to stand strong. You hid your face and I was alarmed (dismayed).

How long, O Jehovah? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?

You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

I will wait for Jehovah, who hides his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will hope in him.

No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You allowed us be ruined by our sins.

Then the nations will know that the people of Israel went into captivity because they did wrong and rebelled against me. I hid my face (withdrew my support) from them and handed them over to their enemies. They were killed in battle.

Befall them

Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

Are not these

All the nations will say: Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?'

Do not go! Your enemies will defeat you because Jehovah is not with you.

Gideon said to him: May I ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if Jehovah is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us Jehovah used to do, how he brought them out of Egypt? Jehovah has abandoned us. He left us to the mercy of the Midianites.

O Jehovah, why do you let us wander from your ways and become so stubborn that we are unable to respect you? Return for the sake of your servants. They are the tribes that belong to you.

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If so, Jehovah will strike you and your descendants with unimaginable plagues. They will be terrible continuing plagues. They will be severe and lingering diseases.

I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil they will do. They will turn to other gods.

They tested God Most High and rebelled against him. They did not obey his written instructions.

Jehovah said: They have forsaken the Law I set before them. They have not obeyed my voice nor walked according to it.