15. And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat--thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.
16. They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
17. They sacrifice to demons--no god! Gods they have not known--New ones-- from the vicinity they came; Not feared them have your fathers!
18. The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.
19. And Jehovah seeth and despiseth--For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20. And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what [is] their latter end; For a froward generation [are] they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.
21. They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.
22. For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol--the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.
23. I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
24. Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.
25. Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers--fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.
26. I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
27. If not--the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know--Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.
28. For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them.
29. If they were wise--They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end:
30. How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not--that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?
31. For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!)