Deuteronomy 32:16-18

New International Reader's Version

¹⁶ They made him jealous by serving false gods.
    They made him angry by worshiping statues of gods.
    He hated those gods.
¹⁷ The people sacrificed to those false gods, not to God.
    They hadn’t known anything about those false gods.
Those gods were new to them.
    Their people of long ago didn’t worship them.
¹⁸ But then they deserted the Rock. He was their Father.
    They forgot the God who created them.