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Deuteronomy 32:19

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “The LORD saw [this], and spurned [them] Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And the LORD saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And Jehovah saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— When Yahweh saw, he derided,—Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And Jehovah seeth and despiseth—For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The Lorde then sawe it, and was angrie, for the prouocation of his sonnes and of his daughters.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred [them], because of the prouoking of his sonnes, & of his daughters.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And the LORD saw it, and was angry, because his sons and daughters provoked him.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And the Lord saw, and was jealous; and was provoked by the anger of his sons and daughters,
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And when Yahweh saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
And when Yähwè יָהוֶה 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
saw 7200
{7200} Prime
רָאָה
ra'ah
{raw-aw'}
A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitively, intransitively and causatively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
[it], he abhorred 5006
{5006} Prime
נָאַץ
na'ats
{naw-ats'}
A primitive root; to scorn; or (Ecclesiastes 12:5) by interchange for H5132, to bloom.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
[them], because of the provoking 3708
{3708} Prime
כַּעַס
ka`ac
{kah'-as}
From H3707; vexation.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
of his sons, 1121
{1121} Prime
בֵּן
ben
{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
and of his daughters. 1323
{1323} Prime
בַּת
bath
{bath}
From H1129 (as feminine of H1121); a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:19-25

_ _ The method of this song follows the method of the predictions in the foregoing chapter, and therefore, after the revolt of Israel from God, described in the foregoing verses, here follow immediately the resolves of divine Justice concerning them; we deceive ourselves if we think that God will be thus mocked by a foolish faithless people, that play fast and loose with him.

_ _ I. He had delighted in them, but now he would reject them with detestation and disdain, Deuteronomy 32:19. When the Lord saw their treachery, and folly, and base ingratitude, he abhorred them, he despised them, so some read it. Sin makes us odious in the sight of the holy God; and no sinners are so loathsome to him as those that he has called, and that have called themselves, his sons and his daughters, and yet have been provoking to him. Note, The nearer any are to God in profession the more noisome are they to him if they are defiled in a sinful way, Psalms 106:39, Psalms 106:40.

_ _ II. He had given them the tokens of his presence with them and his favour to them; but now he would withdraw and hide his face from them, Deuteronomy 32:20. His hiding his face signifies his great displeasure; they had turned their back upon God, and now God would turn his back upon them (compare Jeremiah 18:17 with Jeremiah 2:27); but here it denotes also the slowness of God's proceedings against them in a way of judgment. They began in their apostasy with omissions of good, and so proceeded to commissions of evil. In like manner God will first suspend his favours, and let them see what the issue of that will be, what a friend they lose when they provoke God to depart, and will try whether this will bring them to repentance. Thus we find God hiding himself, as it were, in expectation of the event, Isaiah 57:17. To justify himself in leaving them he shows that they were such as there was no dealing with; for, 1. They were froward and a people that could not be pleased, or obstinate in sin, and that could not be convinced and reclaimed. 2. They were faithless, and a people that could not be trusted. When he saved them, and took them into covenant, he said, Surely they are children that will not lie (Isaiah 63:8); but when they proved otherwise, children in whom is no faith, they deserved to be abandoned, and that the God of truth should have no more to do with them.

_ _ III. He had done every thing to make them easy and to please them, but now he would do that against them which should be most vexatious to them. The punishment here answers the sin, Deuteronomy 32:21. 1. They had provoked God with despicable deities which were not gods at all, but vanities, creatures of their own imagination, that could not pretend either to merit or to repay the respects of their worshippers; the more vain and vile the gods were after which they went a whoring the greater was the offence to that great and good God whom they set them up in competition with and contradiction to. This put two great evils into their idolatry, Jeremiah 2:13. 2. God would therefore plague them with despicable enemies, that were worthless, weak, and inconsiderable, and not deserving the name of a people, which was a great mortification to them, and aggravated the oppressions they groaned under The more base the people were that tyrannised over them the more barbarous they would be (none so insolent as a beggar on horseback), besides that it would be infamous to Israel, who had so often triumphed over great and mighty nations, to be themselves trampled upon by the weak and foolish, and to come under the curse of Canaan, who was to be a servant of servants. But God can make the weakest instrument a scourge to the strongest sinner; and those that by sin insult their might Creator are justly insulted by the meanest of their fellow-creatures. This was remarkably fulfilled in the days of the judges, when they were sometimes oppressed by the very Canaanites themselves, whom they had subdued, Judges 4:2. But the apostle applies it to the conversion of the Gentiles, who had been a people not in covenant with God, and foolish in divine things, yet were brought into the church, sorely to the grief of the Jews, who upon all occasions showed a great indignation at it, which was both their sin and their punishment, as envy always is, Romans 10:19.

_ _ IV. He had planted them in a good land, and replenished them with all good things; but now he would strip them of all their comforts, and bring them to ruin. The judgments threatened are very terrible, Deuteronomy 32:22-25. 1. The fire of God's anger shall consume them, Deuteronomy 32:22. Are they proud of their plenty? It shall burn up the increase of the earth. Are they confident of their strength? It shall destroy the very foundations of their mountains: there is no fence against the judgments of God when they come with commission to lay all waste. It shall burn to the lowest hell, that is, it shall bring them to the very depth of misery in this world, which yet would be but a faint resemblance of the complete and endless misery of sinners in the other world. The damnation of hell (as our Saviour calls it) is the fire of God's anger, fastening upon the guilty conscience of a sinner, to its inexpressible and everlasting torment, Isaiah 30:33. 2. The arrows of God's judgments shall be spent upon them, till his quiver is quite exhausted, Deuteronomy 32:23. The judgments of God, like arrows, fly swiftly (Psalms 64:7), reaching those at a distance who flatter themselves with hopes of escaping them, Psalms 21:8, Psalms 21:12. They come from an unseen hand, but wound mortally, for God never misses his mark, 1 Kings 22:34. The particular judgments here threatened are, (1.) Famine: they shall be burnt, or parched, with hunger. (2.) Pestilence and other diseases, here called burning heat and bitter destruction. (3.) The insults of the inferior creatures: the teeth of beasts and the poison of serpents, Deuteronomy 32:24. (4.) War and the fatal consequences of it, Deuteronomy 32:25. [1.] Perpetual frights. When the sword is without, there cannot but be terror within. 2 Corinthians 7:5, Without were fightings, within were fears. Those who cast off the fear of God are justly exposed to the fear of enemies. [2.] Universal deaths. The sword of the Lord, when it is sent to lay all waste, will destroy without distinction; neither the strength of the young man nor the beauty of the virgin, neither the innocency of the suckling nor the gravity or infirmity of the man of gray hairs, will be their security from the sword when it devours one as well as another. Such devastation does war make, especially when it is pushed on by men as ravenous as wild beasts and as venomous as serpents, Deuteronomy 32:24. See here what mischief sin does, and reckon those fools that make a mock at it.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deuteronomy 32:19

His sons and daughters — Such they were by calling and profession.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Deuteronomy 32:19

And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the provoking of his (m) sons, and of his daughters.

(m) He calls them God's children, not to honour them, but to show them from what dignity they are fallen.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
And when:

Leviticus 26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
Judges 2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Psalms 5:4 For thou [art] not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psalms 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.
Psalms 78:59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalms 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Amos 3:2-3 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. ... Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

abhorred them:
or, despised,
Lamentations 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

of his sons:

Psalms 82:6-7 I have said, Ye [are] gods; and all of you [are] children of the most High. ... But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Jeremiah 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, [seeing] she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Lv 26:11. Jg 2:14. Ps 5:4; 10:3; 78:59; 82:6; 106:40. Is 1:2. Jr 11:15. Lm 2:6. Am 3:2. Zc 11:8. Rv 3:16.

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