Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵When Israel grew fat, they became stubborn.

When they were filled with food, they became fat and heavy.

They left the God who made them.

They turned away from the Rock who saved them.

¹⁶They made him jealous by serving strange gods.

They made him angry by worshiping statues of gods.

He hated those gods.

¹⁷The people sacrificed to demons, not to God.

The demons were gods they hadn’t known anything about.

Those gods were new to them.

Their people long ago didn’t worship them.

¹⁸But then they deserted the Rock. He was their Father.

They forgot the God who created them.

¹⁹When the Lord saw that, he turned away from them.

His sons and daughters made him angry.

²⁰“I will turn my face away from them,” he said.

“I will see what will happen to them in the end.

They are sinful people.

They are unfaithful children.

²¹They made me jealous by serving what is not even a god.

They made me angry by worshiping worthless statues of gods.

I will use people who are not a nation to make them jealous.

I will use a nation that has no understanding to make them angry.

²²My anger has started a fire.

It burns down to the kingdom of the dead.

It will eat up the earth and its crops.

It will set the base of the mountains on fire.

²³“I will pile troubles on my people.

I will shoot all of my arrows at them.

²⁴I will send them hunger. It will make them weak.

I will send terrible sickness. I will send deadly plagues.

I will send wild animals that will tear them apart.

Snakes that glide through the dust will bite them.

²⁵In the streets their children will be killed with swords.

Their homes will be filled with terror.

Young men and women will die.

Babies and old people will die.