Deuteronomy 32:15-30

15But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

16They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

18You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

19But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

20He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

22For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

23I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

24They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

26“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

27But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say, “Our power is great, and the Lord has not done all this!”’

28They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

29I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

30How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the Lord had handed them over?