Deuteronomy 8:20

The Scriptures 1998

“Like the nations which יהוה is destroying before you, so you are to perish, because you did not obey the voice of יהוה your Elohim.

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יהוה is Sovereign forever and ever; The gentiles shall perish from His land.

“But they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers.

“And the corpses of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth, with none to frighten them away.

“Thus said the Master יהוה, ‘This is Yerushalayim which I have set in the midst of the gentiles, with the other lands all around her.

‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.

“I shall call the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yardĕ

“But cling to יהוה your Elohim, as you have done to this day.