Deuteronomy 32:26-38 - The Weakness Of Other Gods
26 I would have said: 'I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.' 27 I did not want their enemies to make me angry. I did not want their opponents to misunderstand and say: We won this victory! Jehovah did not do all this! 28 My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand. 29 They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened. 30 Why were a thousand defeated by one? Why ten thousand by only two? Jehovah their God abandoned them! Their mighty God gave them up. 31 Their rock is not like our rock! Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God. 32 Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter. 33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras). 34 Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures? 35 Vengeance and retribution belong to me. (Vengeance is mine, I will repay.) Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things to come on them come quickly. 36 Jehovah will bring his people justice. He will have compassion on his servants. He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. 37 He will say: 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge? 38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices? Who drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let them be your hiding place!