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- And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats,
- With the kidney-fat of wheat;
- And of the blood of the grape thou drankest foaming wine.
- 15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked—
- Thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross—
- And he forsook God who made him,
- And contemned the Rock of his salvation.
- 16They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods,
- With abominations did they provoke Him.
- 17They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods,
- Gods that they knew not,
- New gods that came up of late,
- Which your fathers dreaded not.
- 18Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful,
- And didst forget God that bore thee.
- 19And the Lord saw, and spurned,
- Because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.
- 20And He said: 'I will hide My face from them,
- I will see what their end shall be;
- For they are a very froward generation,
- Children in whom is no faithfulness.
- 21They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god;
- They have provoked Me with their vanities;
- And I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people;
- I will provoke them with a vile nation.
- 22For a fire is kindled in My nostril,
- And burneth unto the depths of the nether-world,
- And devoureth the earth with her produce,
- And setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
- 23I will heap evils upon them;
- I will spend Mine arrows upon them;
- 24The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt,
- And bitter destruction;
- And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them,
- With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
- 25Without shall the sword bereave,
- And in the chambers terror;
- Slaying both young man and virgin,
- The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
- 26I thought I would make an end of them,
- I would make their memory cease from among men;
- 27Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation,
- Lest their adversaries should misdeem,
- Lest they should say: Our hand is exalted,
- And not the Lord hath wrought all this.'
- 28For they are a nation void of counsel,
- And there is no understanding in them.
- 29If they were wise, they would understand this,
- They would discern their latter end.
- 30How should one chase a thousand,
- And two put ten thousand to flight,
- Except their Rock had given them over
- And the Lord had delivered them up?
- 31For their rock is not as our Rock,
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