Deuteronomy 31:16-18

The Voice

Eternal One (to Moses): ¹⁶ You’re about to leave this world to lie down with your ancestors in death. After you’re gone, these people are going to be unfaithful to Me. They’re going to worship foreign gods, the gods of the land they’re going into. They’re going to abandon Me and break the covenant I made with them. ¹⁷ When they do, I’ll be furious with them and abandon them. I won’t look on them when they pray. I won’t protect them, and they’ll be eaten alive. They’ll be in so much trouble and distress then that they’ll say, “We must be in all this trouble because our God isn’t with us anymore!” ¹⁸ And they’ll be right. In those days, I won’t look at them when they pray because they’ll have done such an evil thing by turning to other gods.