32:20 He said, “I will reject them, 3
I will see what will happen to them;
for they are a perverse generation,
children 4 who show no loyalty.
1 sn The phrase is not used here in a technical sense for the eschaton, but rather refers to a future time when Israel will be punished for its sin and experience exile. See Deut 31:29.
2 tn Heb “hear his voice.” The expression is an idiom meaning “obey,” occurring in Deut 8:20; 9:23; 13:18; 21:18, 20; 26:14, 17; 27:10; 28:1-2, 15, 45, 62; 30:2, 8, 10, 20.
3 tn Heb “I will hide my face from them.”
4 tn Heb “sons” (so NAB, NASB); TEV “unfaithful people.”