Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵“The Lord’s people grew rich, but rebellious;

they were fat and stuffed with food.

They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty saviour.

¹⁶Their idolatry made the Lord jealous; the evil they did made him angry.

^17*They sacrificed to gods that are not real,

new gods their ancestors had never known,

gods that Israel had never obeyed,

¹⁸They forgot their God, their mighty saviour,

the one who had given them life.

¹⁹“When the Lord saw this, he was angry

and rejected his sons and daughters.

²⁰‘I will no longer help them,’ he said;

‘then I will see what happens to them,

those stubborn, unfaithful people.

^21*With their idols they have made me angry,

jealous with their so-called gods,

gods that are really not gods.

So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry;

I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.

²²My anger will flame up like fire

and burn everything on earth.

It will reach to the world below^d

and consume the roots of the mountains.

²³“ ‘I will bring on them endless disasters

and use all my arrows against them.

²⁴They will die from hunger and fever;

they will die from terrible diseases.

I will send wild animals to attack them,

and poisonous snakes to bite them.

²⁵War will bring death in the streets;

terrors will strike in the homes.

Young men and young women will die;

neither babies nor old people will be spared.