Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵Israel grew fat and kicked;

they were fat and full and firm.

They left the God who made them

and rejected the Rock who saved them.

¹⁶They made God jealous with foreign gods

and angry with hateful idols.

¹⁷They made sacrifices to demons, not God,

to gods they had never known,

new gods from nearby,

gods your ancestors did not fear.

¹⁸You left God who is the Rock, your Father,

and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹The Lord saw this and rejected them;

his sons and daughters had made him angry.

²⁰He said, “I will turn away from them

and see what will happen to them.

They are evil people,

unfaithful children.

²¹They used things that are not gods to make me jealous

and worthless idols to make me angry.

So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous;

I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry.

²²My anger has started a fire

that burns down to the place of the dead.

It will burn up the ground and its crops,

and it will set fire to the base of the mountains.

²³“I will pile troubles upon them

and shoot my arrows at them.

²⁴They will be starved and sick,

destroyed by terrible diseases.

I will send them vicious animals

and gliding, poisonous snakes.

²⁵In the streets the sword will kill;

in their homes there will be terror.

Young men and women will die,

and so will babies and gray-haired men.