Deuteronomy 32:5
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- KJV
- They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
- WEB
- They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
- ASV
- They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.
- DARBY
- They have dealt corruptly with him; Not his children's is their spot: A crooked and perverted generation!
- BLB
- They have corrupted themselves; because of their blemish [they are] not His sons, a generation perverse and crooked.
- ÅB
- Skulle han ha ført fordervelse over sitt folk! Nei, hans barn de har skammen - en vanartet og vrang slekt.
- OTB
- De har handlet fordervet mot ham; de er ikke hans barn på grunn av sin lyte; de er en vrang og fordervet slekt.
- B1930
- Skulde han ha ført fordervelse over sitt folk! Nei, hans barn de har skammen - en vanartet og vrang slekt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Read in contextIsaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Read in contextMatthew 17:17
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
Read in contextLuke 9:41
And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
Read in contextPsalms 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Read in contextHosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
Read in contextMatthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
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