Deuteronomy 31:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

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  • Deut 31:16-17 : 16 And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them. 17 In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 31:17
    89%

    17 In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?

  • Deut 32:19-20
    2 verses
    79%

    19 And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

    20 And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

  • Ezek 39:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23 And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

    24 In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.

  • Mic 3:4
    77%

    4 Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

  • Jer 1:16
    75%

    16 And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • Jer 18:17
    75%

    17 I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

  • Isa 57:17
    74%

    17 I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

  • Jer 11:11
    73%

    11 So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • Jer 44:11
    73%

    11 So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;

  • Deut 31:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.

    21 Then when evils and troubles without number have overtaken them, this song will be a witness to them, for the words of it will be clear in the memories of their children: for I see the thoughts which are moving in their hearts even now, before I have taken them into the land of my oath.

  • Ezek 7:22
    73%

    22 And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.

  • Ezek 39:29
    73%

    29 And my face will no longer be covered from them: for I have sent the out-flowing of my spirit on the children of Israel, says the Lord.

  • Isa 31:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

    7 For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

  • Jer 32:31-33
    3 verses
    72%

    31 For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face:

    32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.

    33 And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.

  • 2 Kgs 22:17
    72%

    17 Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.

  • Exod 33:22-23
    2 verses
    72%

    22 And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past:

    23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.

  • Jer 16:17
    72%

    17 For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

  • Hos 5:15
    72%

    15 I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

  • Jer 23:39-40
    2 verses
    72%

    39 For this reason, truly, I will put you completely out of my memory, and I will put you, and the town which I gave to you and to your fathers, away from before my face:

    40 And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.

  • 2 Chr 7:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

    20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • Jer 18:10
    72%

    10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

  • Jer 25:6
    72%

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 8:8
    71%

    8 As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

  • Hos 7:2
    71%

    2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

  • Hos 5:6
    71%

    6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

  • Ps 51:9
    71%

    9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

  • 2 Chr 34:25
    71%

    25 Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    71%

    22 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, who took them out of the land of Egypt, and took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why he has sent all this evil on them.

  • Zeph 3:11
    71%

    11 In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    71%

    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • Ezek 14:8
    71%

    8 And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Josh 22:18
    71%

    18 That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.

  • Ezek 15:7
    71%

    7 And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.

  • Ezek 14:5
    71%

    5 So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

  • Jer 13:26
    71%

    26 So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.

  • Jer 34:18
    71%

    18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

  • 1 Kgs 9:7
    71%

    7 Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    71%

    9 And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.

  • Job 13:20
    71%

    20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

  • Ps 34:16
    71%

    16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

  • Prov 1:28
    70%

    28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: