20 When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their ancestors,(A) and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods(B) and worship them,(C) rejecting me and breaking my covenant.(D)

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15 Jeshurun[a](A) grew fat(B) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(C) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock(D) their Savior.
16 They made him jealous(E) with their foreign gods
    and angered(F) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(G) to false gods,(H) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,(I)
    gods that recently appeared,(J)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(K) the God who gave you birth.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.

34 They did not destroy(A) the peoples
    as the Lord had commanded(B) them,
35 but they mingled(C) with the nations
    and adopted their customs.
36 They worshiped their idols,(D)
    which became a snare(E) to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons(F)
    and their daughters to false gods.(G)
38 They shed innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons(H) and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was desecrated by their blood.
39 They defiled themselves(I) by what they did;
    by their deeds they prostituted(J) themselves.

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