Deuteronomy 32:15-30

15Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked — Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness; — He gave up 1God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

16They moved him to jealousy with strange 2gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

17They sacrificed unto demons who are not 3God; To 4gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.

18Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten 5God who brought thee forth.

19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.

20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no 6God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.

22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.

23I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.

24They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.

25From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror — Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

26I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

27If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.

28For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.

29Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!

30How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?