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Deuteronomy 32:18
Deuteronomy 32:18 is verse 18 of Deuteronomy chapter 32, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
King James Version
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
World English Bible
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
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Deuteronomy 32:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 When the LORD saw this, He rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
20 He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
Deuteronomy 6:12be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 8:11Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
Deuteronomy 8:14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 8:19If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Psalms 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
Isaiah 22:10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
Isaiah 22:11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
Jeremiah 3:21A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
Hosea 8:14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.