^{15 Ref} But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

^{16 Ref} The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

^{17 Ref} They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.

^{18 Ref} You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.

^{19 Ref} And the Lord saw with disgust the evil-doing of his sons and daughters.

^{20 Ref} And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.

^{21 Ref} They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

^{22 Ref} For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

^{23 Ref} I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

^{24 Ref} They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

^{26 Ref} I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

^{27 Ref} But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

^{28 Ref} For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

^{29 Ref} If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

^{30 Ref} How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?

^{31 Ref} For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.

^{32 Ref} For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:

^{33 Ref} Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

^{34 Ref} Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?

^{35 Ref} Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.

^{36 Ref} For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

^{37 Ref} And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

^{38 Ref} Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.

^{39 Ref} See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.

^{40 Ref} For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,

^{41 Ref} If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

^{42 Ref} I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.

^{43 Ref} Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.