Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵“But Israel soon became fat and unruly;

the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed!

Then they abandoned the God who had made them;

they made light of the Rock of their salvation.

¹⁶They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods;

they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.

¹⁷They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God,

to gods they had not known before,

to new gods only recently arrived,

to gods their ancestors had never feared.

¹⁸You neglected the Rock who had fathered you;

you forgot the God who had given you birth.

¹⁹“The Lord saw this and drew back,

provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.

²⁰He said, ‘I will abandon them;

then see what becomes of them.

For they are a twisted generation,

children without integrity.

²¹They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;

they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.

Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;

I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.

²²For my anger blazes forth like fire

and burns to the depths of the grave.

It devours the earth and all its crops

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

²³I will heap disasters upon them

and shoot them down with my arrows.

²⁴I will weaken them with famine,

burning fever, and deadly disease.

I will send the fangs of wild beasts

and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.

²⁵Outside, the sword will bring death,

and inside, terror will strike

both young men and young women,

both infants and the aged.