Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

¹⁶They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

¹⁷They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

¹⁸Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

¹⁹The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.

²⁰And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

²¹They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

²²A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

²³I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

²⁴They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

²⁵Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.