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Deuteronomy 32:28

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

People of Israel, that's what the LORD has said to you. But you don't have good sense, and you never listen to advice.

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God told us, “Wisdom means that you respect me, the Lord, and turn from sin.”

So I let you be stubborn and keep on following your own advice.

Respect and obey the LORD! This is the beginning of knowledge. Only a fool rejects wisdom and good advice.

When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.

So once again I will do things that shock and amaze them, and I will destroy the wisdom of those who claim to know and understand.”

I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”

Your wise men have rejected what I say, and so they have no wisdom. Now they will be trapped and put to shame; they won't know what to do.

You priests have rejected me, and my people are destroyed by refusing to obey. Now I'll reject you and forget your children, because you have forgotten my Law.

My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.

This is because God considers the wisdom of this world to be foolish. It is just as the Scriptures say, “God catches the wise when they try to outsmart him.”

Israel, the LORD is your Father, the one who created you, but you repaid him by being foolish.




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