Deuteronomy 32:20

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Deuteronomy 32:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

21 They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

22 For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

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Deuteronomy 31:17

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

Deuteronomy 31:18

And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

Job 34:29

But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Jeremiah 18:17

I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”

Hosea 9:12

Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!

Deuteronomy 32:5

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Isaiah 65:2

All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

Isaiah 65:3

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Isaiah 65:4

sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

Isaiah 65:5

They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.

Matthew 11:16

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:

Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

Luke 7:31

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another: ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’

2 Chronicles 20:20

Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

Isaiah 7:9

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”

Isaiah 30:9

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

Matthew 17:17

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

Mark 9:19

“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”

Luke 18:8

I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”

2 Thessalonians 3:2

And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.