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15 »Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.
16 »They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.
17 »They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.
18 »You ignored the rock that fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life.
19 »Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry.
20 »He said: ‘I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are a devious and perverse generation. They are children who have no faith.
21 »They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.
22 My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.
23 »I will heap distress on them! I will use my arrows on them.
24 »They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust.
25 »Outside the sword will bereave. Inside terror shall destroy both young man and virgin, babies and old man with gray hair.