Deuteronomy 32:15-30

15Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled — you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

16They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices.

17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your ancestors did not fear.

18You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

19When the Lord saw this, he despised them, angered by his sons and daughters.

20He said, “I will hide my face from them; I will see what will become of them, for they are a perverse generation — unfaithful children.

21They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.

22For fire has been kindled because of my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

23“I will pile disasters on them; I will use up my arrows against them.

24They will be weak from hunger, ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs, as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.

25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the young woman will be killed, the infant and the gray-haired man.

26“I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,

27if I had not feared provocation from the enemy, or feared that these foes might misunderstand and say, ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’”

28Israel is a nation lacking sense with no understanding at all.

29If only they were wise, they would comprehend this; they would understand their fate.

30How could one pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?