Deuteronomy 31:16

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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.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 16. And it will appear as if the Lord is angry with the soul in that state, and that He has left it, and that His mercy is departed from it, and the spiritual life will be consumed and inundated with evils and troubles; and the soul will then begin to inquire whether these evils have not come upon it because the Lord is no more within it;