Deuteronomy 31:18
Good News Translation
And I will refuse to help them then, because they have done evil and worshiped other gods.

New Revised Standard Version
On that day I will surely hide my face on account of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

Contemporary English Version
They will pray to me, but I will ignore them because they were evil and started worshiping other gods.

New American Bible
Yet I will surely hide my face at that time because of all the evil they have done in turning to other gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.

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But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.

Deuteronomy 31:16,17 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, . . .

Context
God Commissions Joshua
17And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me. 18But I will hide, and cover my face in that day, for all the evils which they have done, because they have followed strange gods.19Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:17
And my wrath shall be kindled against them in that day: and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured: all evils and afflictions shall find them, so that they shall say in that day: In truth it is because God is not with me, that these evils have found me.

Deuteronomy 31:19
Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel.

2 Kings 22:13
Go and consult the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Juda, concerning the words of this book which is found: for the great wrath of the Lord is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do all that is written for us.

Isaiah 64:7
There is none that calleth upon thy name: that riseth up, and taketh hold of thee: thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast crushed us in the hand of our iniquity.

Deuteronomy 31:17
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