Deuteronomy 32:13-23

13 He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;
14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams; Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat— you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
15 Jacob ate his fill; Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You grew fat, bloated, and gorged! He abandoned God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
16 They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to deities they had never known, to new ones recently arrived, whom your ancestors had not feared.
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw it, and was jealous; he spurned his sons and daughters.
20 He said: I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.
21 They made me jealous with what is no god, provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with what is no people, provoke them with a foolish nation.
22 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT [he ate]
  • [b]. Q Mss Sam Gk: MT lacks [Jacob ate his fill]
  • [c]. Or [that begot you]
  • [d]. Q Mss Gk: MT lacks [was jealous]
  • [e]. Cn: Heb [he spurned because of provocation]
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