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.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:14 That is, with the best
  2. Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew with the kidney fat
  3. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

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