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Deuteronomy 32:14-28
English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 32:14-28
English Standard Version
14 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat[a] of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest[b] of the wheat—
and you drank foaming wine made from (A)the blood of the grape.
15 “But (B)Jeshurun grew fat, and (C)kicked;
(D)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
(E)then he forsook God (F)who made him
and scoffed at (G)the Rock of his salvation.
16 (H)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (I)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to (J)new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (K)the Rock that bore[c] you,
and you (L)forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 (M)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of (N)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (O)‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 (P)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (Q)with their idols.
So (R)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (S)a foolish nation.
22 For (T)a fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to (U)the depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
(V)I will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (W)the teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of (X)things that crawl in the dust.
25 (Y)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (Z)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
(AA)I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (AB)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is (AC)no understanding in them.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
- Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat
- Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered
Deuteronomy 32:14-28
New International Version
Deuteronomy 32:14-28
New International Version
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(A)
and the finest kernels of wheat.(B)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(C)
15 Jeshurun[a](D) grew fat(E) and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(F) the God who made them
and rejected the Rock(G) their Savior.
16 They made him jealous(H) with their foreign gods
and angered(I) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(J) to false gods,(K) which are not God—
gods they had not known,(L)
gods that recently appeared,(M)
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot(N) the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(O)
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(P)
20 “I will hide my face(Q) from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(R)
children who are unfaithful.(S)
21 They made me jealous(T) by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.(U)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(V)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(W)
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(X)
It will devour(Y) the earth and its harvests(Z)
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(AA)
23 “I will heap calamities(AB) on them
and spend my arrows(AC) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(AD) against them,
consuming pestilence(AE) and deadly plague;(AF)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(AG)
the venom of vipers(AH) that glide in the dust.(AI)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror(AJ) will reign.(AK)
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.(AL)
26 I said I would scatter(AM) them
and erase their name from human memory,(AN)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand(AO)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”(AP)
28 They are a nation without sense,
there is no discernment(AQ) in them.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.
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