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 on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
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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 on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
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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?
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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?
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 31:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 14:42 Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.
- Judges 6:13 Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
- 2 Chronicles 15:2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
- Psalms 104:29 You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.
- Isaiah 8:17 I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- Deuteronomy 29:24-27 Even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against this land, to bring on it all the curses that are written in this book.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
- Psalms 30:7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
- Isaiah 64:7 There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
- Jeremiah 23:33 “When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, asks you, saying, ‘What is the message from Yahweh?’ Then you shall tell them, ‘ “What message? I will cast you off,” says Yahweh.’
- Deuteronomy 29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Deuteronomy 32:20-22 He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
- Judges 2:14-15 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
- 2 Chronicles 24:20 The Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “God says, ‘Why do you disobey Yahweh’s commandments, so that you can’t prosper? Because you have forsaken Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.’ ”
- Nehemiah 9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Job 13:24 Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
- Job 34:11 For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
- Psalms 2:12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Psalms 27:9 Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.
- Psalms 89:46 How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?
- Psalms 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
- Isaiah 63:17 O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
- Jeremiah 23:39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.
- Ezekiel 39:23-24 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. I did to them according to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions. I hid my face from them.
- Ezekiel 39:29 I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
- Hosea 9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, I will take my favor from them:…
That is, I will take my favor from them: as to turn his face toward us, is to show us his favor.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against…
Deu 31:17 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?
Ver. 17. And many evils and troubles.] As it befell Samson and Saul, when God was gone; πονος πονω πονον φερει, all miseries came trooping and treading one in the heels of another. So Eze 9:10-11. God makes many moves, and as he goes out, some judgment comes in upon the land.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Hide my face, i.e. withdraw my favour and help.
Hide my face, i.e. withdraw my favour and help.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I will surely hide my face in that day,....…
I will surely hide my face in that day,.... Which is repeated for the certainty of it, and that it might be taken notice of; that he was the spring and source of all their good things, their sun and their shield, who being withdrawn from them, they would be deprived of every thing that was good, and be liable to all evil; and this he would do:
for all the evils which they shall have wrought; for all the immoralities they should be guilty of, every transgression of his law, whether of the first or second table, and especially idolatry:
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in that they are turned unto other gods; to the worship and service of them, which of all evils would be the most provoking to God; and the way of speaking suggests as if all evils were included in idolatry, and sprang from it, or were committed with it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Hide my face - Withdraw my favour and help.…
Hide my face - Withdraw my favour and help. Whatever outward troubles we are in if we have but the light of God's countenance, we are safe. But if God hide his face from us then we are undone.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 31:17. Then my anger shall be kindled against…
Deu 31:17. Then my anger shall be kindled against them — So it was upon their first defection to idolatry, (Jdg 2:14,) and so it continued to be in all ages, as we read in that and the following sacred books. I will hide my face from them — A metaphor borrowed from kings, who will not allow those who have offended them to come into their presence and see their face. It signifies, I will withdraw my favour and my help. Whatever outward troubles we are in, if we have but the light of God’s countenance, we are safe. But if God hide his face from us, then we are undone. Are not these evils come upon us because God is not among us? — Here we see the true source of most national, domestic, and personal troubles, the absence of God, or his withdrawing his power, protection, and blessing. This made so remarkable a change in their affairs, that it could not but at last make them reflect on the cause of it. See Jdg 3:9-15; Jdg 4:3.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain My face, as one indignant and much displeased. (Calmet)…
My face, as one indignant and much displeased. (Calmet) --- I will withdraw my special protection and favours from them. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Then my anger shall be kindled, . . .…
Then my anger shall be kindled, . . . and I will hide my face from them--an announcement of the withdrawal of the divine favor and protection of which the Shekinah was the symbol and pledge. It never appeared in the second temple; and its non-appearance was a prelude of "all the evils that came upon them, because their God was not among them."
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. None of the clauses in this v. is…
17. None of the clauses in this v. is characteristic of Deut. My anger shall be kindled against it, JE, Num_11:10; for in that day, as Dillm. points out, Deut. has elsewhere at that time; I will forsake them, contrast Deu_31:6; Deu_31:8, Deu_4:31; hide my face from them, in Pent. only here and Deu_31:18; it shall be devoured, cp. Deu_7:16; come upon me because my God is not in my midst, Deu_1:42. Note that in Deu_31:16-18; Deu_31:20 Israel is referred to in the Sg. Yet Sam. and LXX have many plurals here.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Are not these evils come upon us, because…
(17) Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?—A confession made freely by them at this present day.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I will hide my face from them; will not…
I will hide my face from them; will not look on them with complacency, will withdraw from them my favor and help. (cf. Deu_32:20; Isa_8:17 Isa_64:7; Eze_39:23)
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my anger will be kindled against them
Yahweh compares his anger to someone starting a fire. This emphasizes God's power to destroy whatever makes him angry. This can be stated in active form. AT: "I will kindle my anger against them" or "I will become angry with them" (See: Metaphor and Active or Passive)
I will hide my face from them
This is an idiom. AT: "I will not help them" (See: Idiom)
they will be devoured
This can be stated in active form. AT: "I will devour them" or "I will allow their enemies to devour them" (See: Active or Passive)
devoured
This is a metaphor for "completely destroyed." (See: Metaphor)
Many disasters and troubles will find them
This describes the disasters and troubles as if they were human. AT: "They will experience many disasters and troubles" (See: Personification)
Have these disasters not come upon us ... midst?
This describes the disasters and troubles as if they were human. This rhetorical question can be translated as a statement. AT: "These disasters are destroying me ... midst." (See: Personification and Rhetorical Question)
our God is not in our midst
"God is no longer protecting us" or "God has left us alone"
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anger
face
devour
trouble
God
evil
false god
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