Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵“^aBut ¹Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—

You grew fat, thick, and sleek—

^bThen he abandoned God ^cwho made him,

And treated ^dthe Rock of his salvation with wicked foolishness.

¹⁶“^aThey made Him jealous with strange gods;

^bWith abominations they provoked Him to anger.

¹⁷“^aThey sacrificed to demons who were not God,

^bTo gods whom they have not known,

^cNew gods who came lately,

Whom your fathers did not dread.

¹⁸“You neglected ^athe Rock who begot you,

^bAnd forgot the God who brought you forth.

¹⁹“^aAnd Yahweh saw this and spurned them

^bBecause of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

²⁰“Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them;

^aI will see what their end shall be;

^bFor they are a perverse generation,

^cSons in whom is no faithfulness.

²¹‘^aThey have made Me jealous with what is not God;

They have provoked Me to anger with their ^1bidols.

^cSo I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a wickedly foolish nation,

^22aFor a fire is kindled in My anger,

And it burns to the lowest part of Sheol,

^bAnd it consumes the earth with its produce,

And it sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³‘^aI will heap calamities on them;

^bI will exhaust My arrows on them.

²⁴‘^aThey will be wasted by famine, and consumed by ¹plague

^bAnd bitter destruction;

^cAnd the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,

^dWith the venom of crawling things of the dust.

²⁵‘^aOutside the sword will bereave,

And inside terror—

^bBoth choice man and virgin,

The nursing baby with the man of gray hair.