Deuteronomy 32:20
And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:18But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods..
Deuteronomy 32:5They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.
2 Kings 17:20And the Lord cast off all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, till he cast them away from his face:
2 Chronicles 20:20And they rose early in the morning, and went out through the desert of Thecua: and as they were marching, Josaphat standing in the midst of them, said: Hear me, ye men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be secure: believe his prophets, and all things shall succeed well.
Job 34:29For when he granteth peace, who is there that can condemn? When he hideth his countenance, who is there that can behold him, whether it regard nations, or all men?
Isaiah 30:9For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children, children that will not hear the law of God.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:20-26
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled… Read the whole commentary →