Deuteronomy 32

¹⁵ “But ^[d]Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ “They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
¹⁷ “They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.
¹⁸ “You neglected the Rock who begot you,
And forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹ “The Lord saw this, and spurned them
Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
²⁰ “Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end shall be;
For they are a perverse generation,
Sons in whom is no faithfulness.
²¹ ‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their ^[e]idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
²² For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of ^[f]Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³ ‘I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.
²⁴ ‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by ^[g]plague
And bitter destruction;
And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
²⁵ ‘Outside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—
Both young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.
²⁶ ‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces,
I will remove the memory of them from men,”
²⁷ Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,
That their adversaries would misjudge,
That they would say, “Our hand is ^[h]triumphant,
And the Lord has not done all this.”’

²⁸ “For they are a nation ^[i]lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.
²⁹ “Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would discern their ^[j]future!
³⁰ “How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?
³¹ “Indeed their rock is not like our Rock,
Even our enemies ^[k]themselves judge this.
³² “For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.
³³ “Their wine is the venom of ^[l]serpents,
And the ^[m]deadly poison of cobras.

³⁴ ‘Is it not laid up in store with Me,
Sealed up in My treasuries?
³⁵ ‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,
In due time their foot will slip;
For the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’
³⁶ “For the Lord will vindicate His people,
And will have compassion on His servants,
When He sees that their ^[n]strength is gone,
And there is none remaining, bond or free.
³⁷ “And He will say, ‘Where are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?
³⁸ ‘Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your hiding place!
³⁹ ‘See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
⁴⁰ ‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,
⁴¹ If I sharpen My ^[o]flashing sword,
And My hand takes hold on justice,
I will render vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.
⁴² ‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood,
And My sword will devour flesh,
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the long-haired ^[p]leaders of the enemy.’
⁴³ “Rejoice, O nations, with His people;
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And will render vengeance on His adversaries,
And will atone for His land and His people.”