Deuteronomy 32:15-27

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.”’