Deuteronomy 32:15-30

15Jeshurun  got fat and disrespectful. (You got fat! You were stuffed! You were gorged!) They abandoned the God who made them and treated the rock of their salvation like a fool.

16They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols.

17They sacrificed to demons that are not God, to gods they never heard of. These were new gods, who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.

18(You ignored the rock who fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life.)

19The Lord saw this and rejected them, because his own sons and daughters had made him angry.

20He said, “I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are devious people, children who can’t be trusted.

21They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

22My anger has started a fire that will burn to the depths of hell. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.

23I will bring one disaster after another on them. I will use up all my arrows on them.

24They will be starved by famines and ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics. I will send vicious animals against them along with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.

25Foreign wars will kill off their children, and even at home there will be horrors. Young men and young women alike will die as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.

26I said that I would cut them in pieces and erase everyone’s memory of them.

27But I didn’t want their enemies to make me angry. I didn’t want their opponents to misunderstand and say, ‘We won this victory! It wasn’t the Lord who did all this!’ ”

28My people have lost their good sense. They are not able to understand.

29If only they were wise enough to understand this and realize what will happen to them!

30How could one person chase a thousand or two people make ten thousand flee? Their rock used these people to defeat them and the Lord gave them no help.