29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
    and a plague broke out among them.

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(A)We must not indulge in sexual immorality (B)as some of them did, and (C)twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

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Nevertheless, (A)those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they (A)became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 (B)Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and (C)exchanged the glory of (D)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore (E)God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to (F)the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

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29 See, this alone I found, that (A)God made man upright, but (B)they have sought out many schemes.

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39 Thus they (A)became unclean by their acts,
    and (B)played the whore in their deeds.

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O Lord our God, you answered them;
    you were (A)a forgiving God to them,
    but (B)an avenger of their wrongdoings.

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16 (A)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
    with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
    to gods they had never known,
to (C)new gods that had come recently,
    whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of (D)the Rock that bore[a] you,
    and you (E)forgot the God who gave you birth.

19 (F)“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
    because of the provocation of (G)his sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, (H)‘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 (I)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
    they have provoked me to anger (J)with their idols.
So (K)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
    I will provoke them to anger with (L)a foolish nation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:18 Or fathered

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