Deuteronomy 31:16

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16 And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which 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;