Deuteronomy 31:16-18

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, “Soon you are going to lie down in death with your ancestors. When these people enter the land and are living among the foreigners there, they will chase after foreign gods as though they were prostitutes. They will abandon me and reject the promise ^[a] I made to them. ¹⁷ On that day I will become angry with them. I will abandon them and turn away from them. They will be destroyed, and many terrible disasters will happen to them. On that day they will ask, ‘Haven’t these disasters happened to us because our God isn’t with us?’ ¹⁸ On that day I will certainly turn away from them because of all the evil they’ve done in turning to other gods.