Deuteronomy 31:17

God's Word

On that day I will become angry with them. I will abandon them and turn away from them. They will be destroyed, and many terrible disasters will happen to them. On that day they will ask, ‘Haven’t these disasters happened to us because our God isn’t with us?’

Cross References

1 Kings 8:57

May the Lord our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he never leave us or abandon us.

2 Kings 22:13

“On behalf of the people, all of Judah, and me, ask the Lord about the words in this book that has been found. The Lord’s fierce anger is directed towards us because our ancestors did not obey the things in this book or do everything written ⌞in it⌟.”

1 Chronicles 28:9

“And you, my son Solomon, learn to know your father’s God. Serve the Lord wholeheartedly and willingly because he searches every heart and understands every thought ⌞we have⌟. If you dedicate your life to serving him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will reject you from then on.

2 Chronicles 15:2

Azariah went to Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all you men from Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you will dedicate your lives to serving him, he will accept you. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

2 Chronicles 21:10

So Edom rebelled against Judah’s rule and is still independent today. At the same time Edom rebelled, Libnah rebelled because Jehoram had abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 24:20

God’s Spirit gave Zechariah, son of the priest Jehoiada, strength. Zechariah stood in front of the people and said to them, “This is what God says: Why are you breaking the Lord’s commands? You won’t prosper that way! The Lord has abandoned you because you have abandoned him.”

Nehemiah 9:32

And now, our God, you are the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God. You faithfully keep your promises. Do not consider all the hardships that we have been going through as unimportant. The hardships have come to our kings, leaders, priests, prophets, ancestors, and all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria until now.

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face ⌞from me⌟ and consider me your enemy?

Job 34:11

God will repay humanity for what it has done and will give each person what he deserves.

Psalm 104:29

You hide your face, and they are terrified. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

Psalm 2:12

Kiss the Son, or he will become angry and you will die on your way because his anger will burst into flames. Blessed is everyone who takes refuge in him.

Psalm 27:9

Do not hide your face from me. Do not angrily turn me away. You have been my help. Do not leave me! Do not abandon me, O God, my savior!

Psalm 30:7

O Lord, by your favor you have made my mountain stand firm. When you hid your face, I was terrified.

Psalm 44:10

You make us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us rob us at will.

Psalm 89:46

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

Psalm 90:11

Who fully understands the power of your anger? A person fears you more when he better understands your fury.

Isaiah 2:6

Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob, because they are filled with Eastern influences. They are fortunetellers like the Philistines, and they make deals with foreigners.

Isaiah 5:25

That’s why the anger of the Lord burns hot against his people, and he is ready to use his power to strike them down. The hills tremble, and dead bodies lie like garbage in the streets. Even after all this, his anger has not disappeared, and he is still ready to use his power.

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why do you let us wander from your ways and become so stubborn that we are unable to fear you? Return for the sake of your servants. They are the tribes that belong to you.

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on your name or tries to hold on to you. You have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our sins.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who hides his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will hope in him.

Jeremiah 23:33

“When these people, the prophets, or the priests ask you, ‘What revelation has the Lord burdened you with now?’ say to them, ‘You are the burden! I will abandon you, declares the Lord.’

Jeremiah 23:39

I will certainly forget you. I will throw you out of my presence and out of the city that I gave you and your ancestors.

Jeremiah 33:5

The people of Israel fought the Babylonians. Now their houses are filled with the bodies of their own people I killed in my anger and my fury. I will hide my face from this city because of its wickedness.

Jeremiah 36:7

Maybe their prayers will come into the Lord’s presence, and they will turn from their evil ways. The Lord has threatened these people with his terrifying anger and fury.”

Jeremiah 40:2

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

Jeremiah 8:19

The cry from my dear people comes from a distant land: “Isn’t the Lord in Zion? Isn’t Zion’s king still there?” They make me furious with their idols, with their foreign gods.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will no longer hide my face from them, because I will pour out my Spirit on the nation of Israel, declares the Almighty Lord.”

Hosea 10:4

They say many things. They lie when they take oaths, and they make promises they don’t intend to keep. That’s why lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Hosea 9:12

Even if they bring up children, I will take those children away before they grow up. Yes, how horrible it will be for them when I leave them.

Micah 3:4

Then you will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer you. He will hide his face from you at that time because you have done evil things.

Numbers 14:42

Don’t go! You will be defeated by your enemies because the Lord is not with you.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will never be willing to forgive that person, because the Lord’s burning anger will smolder against him. All the curses described in this book will happen to him. The Lord will erase ⌞every memory of⌟ that person’s name from the earth.

Deuteronomy 30:18

If you do, I tell you today that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live for a long time in the land that you’re going to take possession of when you cross the Jordan River.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.

Deuteronomy 31:18

On that day I will certainly turn away from them because of all the evil they’ve done in turning to other gods.

Deuteronomy 7:21

Don’t be afraid of them, because the Lord your God is with you. He is a great and awe-inspiring God.

Judges 10:6

The people of Israel again did what the Lord considered evil. They began to serve other gods and goddesses—the Baals and the Astartes—and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not serve him.

Judges 6:13

Gideon responded, “Excuse me, sir! But if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all the miracles our ancestors have told us about? Didn’t they say, ‘The Lord brought us out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and has handed us over to Midian.”