^{15 Ref} But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

^{16 Ref} They moved him to jealousy with strange `gods'; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

^{17 Ref} They sacrificed unto demons, `which were' no God, To gods that they knew not, To new `gods' that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.

^{18 Ref} Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

^{19 Ref} And Jehovah saw `it', and abhorred `them', Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

^{20 Ref} And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

^{21 Ref} They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

^{22 Ref} For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

^{23 Ref} I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

^{24 Ref} `They shall be' wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; `It shall destroy' both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

^{26 Ref} I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;