^{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;

^{27 Ref} Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

^{28 Ref} For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

^{29 Ref} Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

^{30 Ref} How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

^{31 Ref} For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

^{32 Ref} For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

^{33 Ref} Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

^{34 Ref} Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

^{35 Ref} Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

^{36 Ref} For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he seeth that `their' power is gone, And there is none `remaining', shut up or left at large.

^{37 Ref} And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

^{38 Ref} Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, `And' drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

^{39 Ref} See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

^{40 Ref} For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

^{41 Ref} If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

^{42 Ref} I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

^{43 Ref} Rejoice, O ye nations, `with' his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.