Deuteronomy 32:11–32

11 xAs an eagle stirs up its nest,

Hovers over its young,

Spreading out its wings, taking them up,

Carrying them on its wings,

12 So the Lord alone led him,

And there was no foreign god with him.

13 “He ymade him ride in the heights of the earth,

That he might eat the produce of the fields;

He made him draw honey from the rock,

And oil from the flinty rock;

14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock,

zWith fat of lambs;

And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,

With the choicest wheat;

And you drank wine, the ablood of the grapes.

15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;

bYou grew fat, you grew thick,

You are obese!

Then he cforsook God who dmade him,

And scornfully esteemed the eRock of his salvation.

16 fThey provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;

With 5abominations they provoked Him to anger.

17 gThey sacrificed to demons, not to God,

To gods they did not know,

To new gods, new arrivals

That your fathers did not fear.

18 hOf the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,

And have iforgotten the God who fathered you.

19 “And jwhen the Lord saw it, He spurned them,

Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,

I will see what their end will be,

For they are a perverse generation,

kChildren in whom is no faith.

21 lThey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;

They have moved Me to anger mby their 6foolish idols.

But nI will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;

I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

22 For oa fire is kindled in My anger,

And shall burn to the 7lowest 8hell;

It shall consume the earth with her increase,

And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 ‘I will pheap disasters on them;

qI will spend My arrows on them.

24 They shall be wasted with hunger,

Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;

I will also send against them the rteeth of beasts,

With the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword shall destroy outside;

There shall be terror within

For the young man and virgin,

The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26 sI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,

I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,

Lest they should say, t“Our hand is high;

And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,

Nor is there any understanding in them.

29 uOh, that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider their vlatter end!

30 How could one chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Unless their Rock whad sold them,

And the Lord had surrendered them?

31 For their rock is not like our Rock,

xEven our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For ytheir vine is of the vine of Sodom

And of the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter.