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Deuteronomy 32:15-29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Deuteronomy 32:15-29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 So Jacob ate and was satisfied,
Jeshurun[a] grew fat and kicked;
you became fat and gross and gorged.
They forsook the God who made them
and scorned the Rock of their salvation.(A)
16 With strange gods they incited him,
with abominations provoked him to anger.(B)
17 They sacrificed to demons, to “no-gods,”
to gods they had never known,
Newcomers from afar,
before whom your ancestors had never trembled.
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you,
you forgot the God who gave you birth.(C)
19 The Lord saw and was filled with loathing,
provoked by his sons and daughters.(D)
20 He said, I will hide my face from them,
and see what becomes of them.
For they are a fickle generation,
children with no loyalty in them!(E)
21 Since they have incited me with a “no-god,”
and provoked me with their empty idols,
I will incite them with a “no-people”;[b]
with a foolish nation I will provoke them.(F)
22 For by my wrath a fire is kindled
that has raged to the depths of Sheol,
It has consumed the earth with its yield,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.(G)
23 I will heap evils upon them
and exhaust all my arrows against them:(H)
24 Emaciating hunger and consuming fever
and bitter pestilence,
And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among them,
with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.(I)
25 Out in the street the sword shall bereave,
and at home the terror
For the young man and the young woman alike,
the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.(J)
26 I said: I will make an end of them
and blot out their name from human memory,
27 Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
that their foes might misunderstand,
And say, “Our own hand won the victory;
the Lord had nothing to do with any of it.”(K)
28 For they are a nation devoid of reason,[c]
having no understanding.
29 If they had insight they would realize this,
they would understand their end:
Footnotes
- 32:15 Jeshurun: a term for Israel from yashar, meaning “upright”; its use here is possibly ironic.
- 32:21 “No-god”…“no-people”: worship of the gods of the nations brings destruction at the hands of a foreign invader. A false god cannot sustain or protect (cf. Jer 14:22); and though the nations seem “foolish” (see their characterization in such passages as Ps 114:1; Is 28:11; 33:19), they will prove to be anything but nonentities when the Lord stirs them up against Israel (Is 9:10–12). For the “no-” or “not-” construction, see Hos 1:6, 9; 2:1, 25.
- 32:28–35 The reference is to the nations, not to Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:15-29
New International Version
Deuteronomy 32:15-29
New International Version
15 Jeshurun[a](A) grew fat(B) and kicked;
filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(C) the God who made them
and rejected the Rock(D) their Savior.
16 They made him jealous(E) with their foreign gods
and angered(F) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(G) to false gods,(H) which are not God—
gods they had not known,(I)
gods that recently appeared,(J)
gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
you forgot(K) the God who gave you birth.
19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(L)
because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(M)
20 “I will hide my face(N) from them,” he said,
“and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(O)
children who are unfaithful.(P)
21 They made me jealous(Q) by what is no god
and angered me with their worthless idols.(R)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(S)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(T)
one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(U)
It will devour(V) the earth and its harvests(W)
and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(X)
23 “I will heap calamities(Y) on them
and spend my arrows(Z) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(AA) against them,
consuming pestilence(AB) and deadly plague;(AC)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(AD)
the venom of vipers(AE) that glide in the dust.(AF)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
in their homes terror(AG) will reign.(AH)
The young men and young women will perish,
the infants and those with gray hair.(AI)
26 I said I would scatter(AJ) them
and erase their name from human memory,(AK)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest the adversary misunderstand(AL)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
the Lord has not done all this.’”(AM)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.
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