11. He watches over His nest like an eagleand hovers over His young;He spreads His wings, catches him,and lifts him up on His pinions.
12. The Lord alone led him,with no help from a foreign god.
13. He made him ride on the heights of the land and eat the produce of the field.He nourished him with honey from the rockand 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.
15. Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled —you became fat, bloated, and gorged.He abandoned the God who made himand scorned the Rock of his salvation.
16. They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;they enraged Him with detestable practices.
17. They sacrificed to demons, not God,to gods they had not known,new gods that had just arrived,which your fathers did not fear.
18. You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
19. When the Lord saw this, He despised them,provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
20. He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will become of them,for they are a perverse generation —unfaithful children.
21. They have provoked My jealousywith their so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousywith an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
22. For fire has been kindled because of My angerand burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce,and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
23. “I will pile disasters on them;I will use up My arrows against them.
24. They will be weak from hunger,ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
25. Outside, the sword will take their children,and inside, there will be terror;the young man and the young woman will be killed,the infant and the gray-haired man.
26. “I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
27. if I had not feared insult from the enemy,or feared that these foes might misunderstandand say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’ ”
28. Israel is a nation lacking sensewith no understanding at all.
29. If only they were wise, they would figure it out;they would understand their fate.
30. How could one man pursue a thousand,or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them,unless the Lord had given them up?
31. But their “rock” is not like our Rock;even our enemies concede.