Deuteronomy 32:23-27 When God Hides His Face!

 23‘I will heap misfortunes on them;

I will use My arrows on them.

24‘They will be wasted by hunger, and consumed by plague

And a bitter destruction;

And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

25‘Outside the sword will bereave,

And inside [the chambers] terror--

For both young man and virgin,

For the nursing child and the man of gray hair.

26‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away],

I will remove the memory of them from men,”

27Had I not feared the provocation of the enemy,

That their adversaries would misjudge,

That they would say, “Our [own] hand has prevailed,

And the LORD has not done all this.”’

“When the hiding of His face does not draw God’s people into repentance, God then sends His hand of correction, and allows calamity to bring the attention of His people back upon Him.” (Guzik)

As we dive into this chapter it’s difficult to remember it’s a song the Lord had Moses write! We can say it’s also a prophecy because it all came to pass!

2 Kings 25: 1So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. 2And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. 3By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. 

Has God hid His face and sent His hand of correction upon US allowing calamity to bring the attention of His people back upon Him?

Blessings