14. He fed them yogurt from the herdand milk from the flock,together with the fat of lambs.He gave them choice rams from Bashan, and goats,together with the choicest wheat.You drank the finest wine,made from the juice of grapes.
15. “But Israel soon became fat and unruly;the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed!Then they abandoned the God who had made them;they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
16. They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods;they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.
17. They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God,to gods they had not known before,to new gods only recently arrived,to gods their ancestors had never feared.
18. You neglected the Rock who had fathered you;you forgot the God who had given you birth.
19. “The lord saw this and drew back,provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.