15. But Jeshurun (the upright one) waxed fat and kicked; (thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou hast covered thyself) and forsook the God who made him and lightly esteemed the strong One of his saving health.
16. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came from nearby, whom your fathers feared not.
18. Of the strong One that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten the God that travailed for thee.
19. And when the Lord saw it, his wrath was kindled because of his sons and of his daughters.
20. And he said, I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end shall be: that they are a generation of perversities, sons without faith.
21. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I also will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with foolish Gentiles.
22. For fire shall be kindled in my anger and shall burn unto the lowest part of Sheol and shall consume the earth with her fruit and burn up the foundations of the mountains.
23. I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
24. They shall be consumed with hunger and devoured with burning heat and with bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.