Deuteronomy 32:20
Good News Translation
'I will no longer help them,' he said; 'then I will see what happens to them, those stubborn, unfaithful people.

New Revised Standard Version
He said: I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

Contemporary English Version
and said, "You are unfaithful and can't be trusted. So I won't answer your prayers; I'll just watch and see what happens to you.

New American Bible
He said, I will hide my face from them, and see what becomes of them. For they are a fickle generation, children with no loyalty in them!

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

I will hide

Deuteronomy 31:17,18 And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me. . . .

Job 13:24 Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?

Job 34:29 For 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 64:7 There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

Jeremiah 18:17 As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

Hosea 9:12 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

a very

Deuteronomy 32:5 They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Isaiah 65:2-5 I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts. . . .

Matthew 11:16,17 But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place. . . .

Luke 7:31,32 And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like? . . .

children

2 Chronicles 20:20 And 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.

Isaiah 7:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.

Isaiah 30:9 For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God.

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Mark 9:19 Who answering them, said: O incredulous generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me.

Luke 18:8 I say to you that he will quickly revenge them. But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth?

2 Thessalonians 3:2 And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men: for all men have not faith.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

Context
The Song of Moses
19The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him. 20And 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.21They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:23
And when he sent you from Cadesbarne, saying: Go up, and possess the land that I have given you, and you slighted the commandment of the Lord your God, and did not believe him, neither would you hearken to his voice:

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

Deuteronomy 32:5
They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Joshua 23:10
One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.

Deuteronomy 32:19
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