12 When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,

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12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down,(A)

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12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

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14 be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.(A)

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14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget(A) the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

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13 He made him ride on the heights of the land(A)
and eat the produce of the field.
He nourished him with honey from the rock
and oil from flint-like rock,
14 cream from the herd and milk from the flock,
with the fat of lambs,
rams from Bashan, and goats,
with the choicest grains of wheat;
you drank wine from the finest grapes.[a]

15 Then[b] Jeshurun[c](B) became fat and rebelled—
you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:14 Lit the blood of grapes
  2. Deuteronomy 32:15 DSS, Sam, LXX add Jacob ate his fill;
  3. Deuteronomy 32:15 = Upright One, referring to Israel

13 He made him ride on the heights(A) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(B)
    and with oil(C) from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(D)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(E)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(F)

15 Jeshurun[a](G) grew fat(H) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(I) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock(J) their Savior.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.

13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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Why should I forgive you?
Your children have abandoned Me
and sworn by those who are not gods.(A)
I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery;(B)
they gashed themselves(C) at the[a] prostitute’s house.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 5:7 Or adultery and trooped to the, or adultery and lodged at the; Hb obscure

“Why should I forgive you?
    Your children have forsaken me
    and sworn(A) by gods that are not gods.(B)
I supplied all their needs,
    yet they committed adultery(C)
    and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.(D)

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How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

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