14. He gave his people butter from the herd and milk from the flock. He gave them lambs and goats. They had the best rams from Bashan and the finest wheat. They drank the best wine made from the juice of red grapes.
15. “But Jeshurun became fat and kicked like a bull. (Yes, you people were fed well and became full and fat.) They left the God who made them! They ran away from the Rock who saved them.
16. They made him jealous by worshiping other gods. They made him angry with those disgusting idols.
17. They offered sacrifices to demons—gods that are not God. These were new gods they had not known before, gods their ancestors never knew.
18. You people left the Rock who made you; you forgot the God who gave you life.
19. “The Lord saw this and became upset. His sons and daughters made him angry!
20. So he said, ‘I will turn away from them, then let’s see what happens! They are a rebellious people. They are like children who will not learn their lessons.
21. They made me jealous with things that are not really gods. They made me angry with their worthless idols. So I will use people who are not really a nation to make them jealous. I will use a worthless nation to make them angry.
22. My anger will burn like a fire, burning down to the deepest grave, burning the earth and all it produces, burning deep down below the mountains.
23. “‘I will bring troubles to the Israelites. I will shoot all my arrows at them.
24. They will become thin from hunger. Terrible diseases will destroy them. I will send wild animals against them. Poisonous snakes and lizards will bite them.
25. In the streets, soldiers will kill them. In their houses, terrible things will happen. Soldiers will kill young men and women. They will kill babies and old people.
26. “‘I thought about destroying the Israelites so that people would forget them completely!
27. But I know what their enemies would say. The enemy would not understand. They would brag and say, “The Lord did not destroy Israel. We won by our own power!”’
28. “They are foolish. They don’t understand.
29. If they were wise, they would understand; they would know what would happen to them.
30. Can one person chase away 1000 men? Can two men cause 10,000 men to run away? It will happen only if the Lord gives them to their enemy. This will happen only if their Rock sells them like slaves.