Deuteronomy 32:15–25

¹⁵Jacob ate his fill;^w

Jeshurun grew fat and kicked.

You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!

He abandoned God who made him

and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.^*

¹⁶They made him jealous with strange gods;

with abhorrent things they provoked him.^*

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to deities they had never known,

to new ones recently arrived,

whom your ancestors had not feared.^*

¹⁸You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;^x

you forgot the God who gave you birth.^*

¹⁹The Lord saw it and was jealous;^y

he spurned^z his sons and daughters.^*

²⁰He said, ‘I will hide my face from them;

I will see what their end will be,

for they are a perverse generation,

children in whom there is no faithfulness.^*

²¹They made me jealous with what is no god,

provoked me with their idols.

So I will make them jealous with what is no people,

provoke them with a foolish nation.^*

²²For a fire is kindled by my anger

and burns to the depths of Sheol;

it devours the earth and its increase

and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.^*

²³I will heap disasters upon them,

spend my arrows against them:^*

²⁴wasting hunger,

burning consumption,

bitter pestilence.

The teeth of beasts I will send against them,

with venom of things crawling in the dust.^*

²⁵In the street the sword shall bereave,

and in the chambers terror

for young man and woman alike,

nursing child and old gray head.^*