Deuteronomy 31:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ My anger will be kindled against them on that day. I will forsake them and hide my face from them; they will become easy prey, and many terrible troubles will come upon them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these troubles come upon us because our God is not in our midst?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Then My anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide My face from them. And they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ At that point my anger will burn against them, and I’ll be the one who abandons them! I’ll hide my face from them. They will become nothing but food for their enemies, and all sorts of bad things and misfortunes will happen to them. Then they will say: ‘Haven’t these terrible things happened to us because our God is no longer with us?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And my fury will be enraged against them in that day. And I will abandon them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured. Every evil and affliction will find them, so much so that they will say in that day: 'Truly, it is because God is not with me that these evils have found me.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ 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.

Deuteronomy 31:17 Cross References

1 Kings 8:57

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors; may he not leave us or abandon us,

2 Kings 22:13

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our ancestors did not obey the words of this book to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

2 Chronicles 21:10

So Edom has been in revolt against the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted against his rule because he had forsaken the Lord, the God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 24:20

Then the spirit of God took possession of Zechariah son of the priest Jehoiada; he stood above the people and said to them, “Thus says God: Why do you transgress the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, he has also forsaken you.”

Nehemiah 9:32

“Now therefore, our God—the great and mighty and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love—do not treat lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until today.

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

Job 34:11

For according to their deeds he will repay them, and according to their ways he will make it befall them.

Psalm 104:29

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 2:12

kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

Psalm 27:9

Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger, you who have been my help. Do not cast me off; do not forsake me, O God of my salvation!

Psalm 30:7

By your favor, O Lord, you had established me as a strong mountain; you hid your face; I was dismayed.

Psalm 44:10

You made us turn back from the foe, and our enemies have gotten spoil.

Psalm 89:46

How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

Psalm 90:11

Who considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

Isaiah 2:6

You have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, for they are full of diviners from the East and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with foreigners.

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 63:17

Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.

Isaiah 64:7

There is no one who calls on your name or attempts to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Jeremiah 23:33

When this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall say to them, “You are the burden. I will cast you off, says the Lord.”

Jeremiah 23:39

therefore, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your ancestors.

Jeremiah 33:5

They are coming to fight the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of those whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.

Jeremiah 36:7

It may be that their plea will come before the Lord and that all of them will turn from their evil ways, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

Jeremiah 40:2

The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster,

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)

Ezekiel 39:29

and I will never again hide my face from them, when I pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 9:12

Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them until no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time because they have acted wickedly.

Numbers 14:42

Do not go up, for the Lord is not with you; do not let yourselves be struck down before your enemies.

Deuteronomy 29:20

the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for then the Lord’s anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 30:18

I declare to you today that you shall certainly perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

Deuteronomy 31:18

On that day I will surely hide my face on account of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

Deuteronomy 7:21

Have no dread of them, for the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God.

Judges 10:6

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.

Judges 6:13

Gideon answered him, “But sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has cast us off and given us into the hand of Midian.”