Deuteronomy 32:15-44

¹⁵But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked —

becoming fat, bloated, and gorged.

He abandoned the God who made him

and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁶They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;

they enraged Him with abominations.

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not to God,

to gods they had not known,

to newly arrived gods,

which your fathers did not fear.

¹⁸You ignored the Rock who brought you forth;

you forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹When the LORD saw this, He rejected them,

provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

²⁰He said: “I will hide My face from them;

I will see what will be their end.

For they are a perverse generation —

children of unfaithfulness.

²¹They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God;

they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.

So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people;

I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

²²For a fire has been kindled by My anger,

and it burns to the depths of Sheol;

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

²³I will heap disasters upon them;

I will spend My arrows against them.

²⁴They will be wasted from hunger

and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;

I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them,

with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

²⁵Outside, the sword will take their children,

and inside, terror will strike

the young man and the young woman,

the infant and the gray-haired man.

²⁶I would have said that I would cut them to pieces

and blot out their memory from mankind,

²⁷if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy,

lest their adversaries misunderstand and say:

‘Our own hand has prevailed;

it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

²⁸Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,

with no understanding among them.

²⁹If only they were wise, they would understand it;

they would comprehend their fate.

³⁰How could one man pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

³¹For their rock is not like our Rock,

even our enemies concede.

³²But their vine is from the vine of Sodom

and from the fields of Gomorrah.

Their grapes are poisonous;

their clusters are bitter.

³³Their wine is the venom of serpents,

the deadly poison of cobras.

³⁴“Have I not stored up these things,

sealed up within My vaults?

³⁵Vengeance is Mine; I will repay.

In due time their foot will slip;

for their day of disaster is near,

and their doom is coming quickly.”

³⁶For the LORD will vindicate His people

and have compassion on His servants

when He sees that their strength is gone

and no one remains, slave or free.

³⁷He will say: “Where are their gods,

the rock in which they took refuge,

³⁸which ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their drink offerings?

Let them rise up and help you;

let them give you shelter!

³⁹See now that I am He;

there is no God besides Me.

I bring death and I give life;

I wound and I heal,

and there is no one

who can deliver from My hand.

⁴⁰For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare:

As surely as I live forever,

⁴¹when I sharpen My flashing sword,

and My hand grasps it in judgment,

I will take vengeance on My adversaries

and repay those who hate Me.

⁴²I will make My arrows drunk with blood,

while My sword devours flesh —

the blood of the slain and captives,

the heads of the enemy leaders.”

⁴³Rejoice, O heavens, with Him,

and let all God’s angels worship Him.

Rejoice, O nations, with His people;

for He will avenge the blood of His children.

He will take vengeance on His adversaries

and repay those who hate Him;

He will cleanse His land

and His people.

Deuteronomy 32:15-44

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