New English Translation

Deuteronomy 32:13-24 New English Translation (NET)

13. He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land,and he ate of the produce of the fields.He provided honey for him from the cliffs,and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,

14. butter from the herdand milk from the flock,along with the fat of lambs,rams and goats of Bashan,along with the best of the kernels of wheat;and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

15. But Jeshurun became fat and kicked,you got fat, thick, and stuffed!Then he deserted the God who made him,and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

16. They made him jealous with other gods,they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

17. They sacrificed to demons, not God,to gods they had not known;to new gods who had recently come along,gods your ancestors had not known about.

18. You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you,and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

19. But the Lord took note and despised thembecause his sons and daughters enraged him.

20. He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them;for they are a perverse generation,children who show no loyalty.

21. They have made me jealous with false gods,enraging me with their worthless gods;so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

22. For a fire has been kindled by my anger,and it burns to lowest Sheol;it consumes the earth and its produce,and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

23. I will increase their disasters,I will use up my arrows on them.

24. They will be starved by famine,eaten by plague, and bitterly stung;I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.