Deuteronomy 8:20 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁰ Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Like the nations which the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ As the nations that Jehovah maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Just like the nations that the LORD is destroying before you, that’s exactly how you will be destroyed—all because you didn’t obey the LORD your God’s voice.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Just like the nations, which the Lord destroyed upon your arrival, so shall you also perish, if you have been disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God."

Deuteronomy 8:20 Cross References

Psalm 10:16

The Lord is king for ever and ever; the nations shall perish from his land.

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Jeremiah 7:33

And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will frighten them away.

Ezekiel 5:5

Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries round about her.

Leviticus 26:27

“And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me,

Leviticus 26:39

And those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like them.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Joshua 23:8

but cleave to the Lord your God as you have done to this day.