32:15 But Jeshurun 1 became fat and kicked,
you 2 got fat, thick, and stuffed!
Then he deserted the God who made him,
and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.
32:16 They made him jealous with other gods, 3
they enraged him with abhorrent idols. 4
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known;
to new gods who had recently come along,
gods your ancestors 5 had not known about.
32:18 You have forgotten 6 the Rock who fathered you,
and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.
32:19 But the Lord took note and despised them
because his sons and daughters enraged him.
32:20 He said, “I will reject them, 7
I will see what will happen to them;
for they are a perverse generation,
children 8 who show no loyalty.
32:21 They have made me jealous 9 with false gods, 10
enraging me with their worthless gods; 11
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 12
with a nation slow to learn 13 I will enrage them.
32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,
and it burns to lowest Sheol; 14
it consumes the earth and its produce,
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
32:23 I will increase their 15 disasters,
I will use up my arrows on them.
32:24 They will be starved by famine,
eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; 16
I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,
along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,
and terror will do so inside;
they will destroy 17 both the young man and the virgin,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
32:26 “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. 18
I want to make people forget they ever existed.
32:27 But I fear the reaction 19 of their enemies,
for 20 their adversaries would misunderstand
and say, “Our power is great, 21
and the Lord has not done all this!”’