Deuteronomy 32:15-33

English Standard Version

¹⁵“But ^(A)Jeshurun grew fat, and ^(B)kicked;
    ^(C)you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
^(D)then he forsook God ^(E)who made him
    and scoffed at ^(F)the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶^(G)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
¹⁷^(H)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to ^(I)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
¹⁸You were unmindful of ^(J)the Rock that bore^[a] you,
    and you ^(K)forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹^(L)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of ^(M)his sons and his daughters.
²⁰And he said, ^(N)‘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^(O)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger ^(P)with their idols.
So ^(Q)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with ^(R)a foolish nation.
²²For ^(S)a fire is kindled by my anger,
    and it burns to ^(T)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;
    ^(U)I will spend my arrows on them;
²⁴they shall be wasted with hunger,
    and devoured by plague
    and poisonous pestilence;
I will send ^(V)the teeth of beasts against them,
    with the venom of ^(W)things that crawl in the dust.
²⁵^(X)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
    and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
²⁶^(Y)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
    ^(Z)I will wipe them from human memory,”
²⁷had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^(AA)“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 ^(AB)no understanding in them.
²⁹^(AC)If they were wise, they would understand this;
    they would ^(AD)discern their latter end!
³⁰How could ^(AE)one have chased a thousand,
    and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock ^(AF)had sold them,
    and the Lord had given them up?
³¹For ^(AG)their rock is not as our Rock;
    ^(AH)our enemies are by themselves.
³²For their vine ^(AI)comes from the vine of Sodom
    and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of ^(AJ)poison;
    their clusters are bitter;
³³their wine is the poison of ^(AK)serpents
    and the cruel venom of asps.