Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵Then^F Jeshurun^Gf became fat and rebelled—

you became fat, bloated, and gorged.

He abandoned the God who made him

and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁶They provoked his jealousy with different gods;

they enraged him with detestable practices.^g

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known,

new gods that had just arrived,

which your ancestors did not fear.^h

¹⁸You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;

you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

¹⁹When the Lord saw this, he despised them,

angered by his sons and daughters.

²⁰He said, “I will hide my face from them;ⁱ

I will see what will become of them,

for they are a perverse generation—

unfaithful children.

²¹They have provoked my jealousy

with what is not a god;^A

they have enraged me with their worthless idols.^j

So I will provoke their jealousy

with what is not a people;^B

I will enrage them with a foolish nation.^k

²²For fire has been kindled because of my anger

and burns to the depths of Sheol;^l

it devours the land and its produce,

and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

²³“I will pile disasters on them;

I will use up my arrows against them.

²⁴They will be weak from hunger,

ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;

I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,

as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.

²⁵Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, there will be terror;

the young man and the young woman will be killed,

the infant and the gray-haired man.^m