Deuteronomy 32:20

God determines to hide His face and see their end, for they are a faithless, perverse generation. It matters because the withdrawal of God's favor is the consequence of unfaithfulness.

Cross-references · 19

• Deut 31:17–18On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
• Luke 7:31–32“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?
• Deut 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
• Isa 30:9These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.
• Isa 65:2–5All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
• Isa 7:9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”
• Isa 64:7No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
• Job 34:29But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
• Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
• Hos 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
• Mark 9:19“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
• Luke 18:8I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”
• Matt 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
• Deut 31:29For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
• 2 Chr 20:20Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
• Matt 11:16–17To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
• Jer 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
• Heb 11:6And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
• 2 Th 3:2And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.

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