12So the Lord alone led him, And therewas no foreign god with him.
13 “Hea made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;
14 Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, aWith fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the bblood of the grapes.
15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; aYou grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he bforsook God whocmade him, And scornfully esteemed the dRock of his salvation.
16aThey provoked Him to jealousy with1 foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17aThey sacrificed to demons, not to God, Togods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
18aOf the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have bforgotten the God who fathered you.
19 “Anda when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end willbe, For they are a perverse generation, aChildren in whom is no faith.
21aThey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger bby their foolish idols. But cI will provoke them to jealousy by thosewhoare not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
22 For aa fire is kindled in My anger, And shall burn to the1 lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
He made him ride on the high places, etc.—All these expressions seem to have peculiar reference to their home in the trans-jordanic territory, that being the extent of Palestine that they had seen at the time when Moses is represented as uttering these words. "The high places" and "the fields" are specially applicable to the tablelands of Gilead as are the allusions to the herds and flocks, the honey of the wild bees which hive in the crevices of the rocks, the oil from the olive as it grew singly or in small clumps on the tops of hills where scarcely anything else would grow, the finest wheat (Psalms 81:16; Psalms 147:14), and the prolific vintage.
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