Deuteronomy 32:15

Deuteronomy 32:15

13 “He^a 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 who ^cmade him,
And scornfully esteemed the ^dRock of his salvation.

16 ^aThey provoked Him to jealousy with¹ foreign gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

17 ^aThey sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.

18 ^aOf the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have ^bforgotten the God who fathered you.

19 “And^a 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 will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
^aChildren in whom is no faith.

21 ^aThey 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 those who are 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.

23 ‘I will ^aheap disasters on them;
^bI will spend My arrows on them.

24 They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the ^ateeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword shall destroy outside;
There shall be terror within
For the young man and virgin,
The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26 ^aI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, ^a“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked—This is a poetical name for Israel. The metaphor here used is derived from a pampered animal, which, instead of being tame and gentle, becomes mischievous and vicious, in consequence of good living and kind treatment. So did the Israelites conduct themselves by their various acts of rebellion, murmuring, and idolatrous apostasy.

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Deuteronomy 32:15:**

Deuteronomy 30:1-10
Job 15:27
Psalms 17:10
Psalms 94:14-15
Proverbs 11:25
Isaiah 8:14
Isaiah 10:27
Isaiah 17:10
Isaiah 26:4
Isaiah 44:2
Jeremiah 5:7
Jeremiah 5:28
Jeremiah 31:18
Ezekiel 16:15
Ezekiel 34:16
Ezekiel 39:18
Daniel 11:17
Hosea 13:6
1 Corinthians 10:4
Revelation 20:9

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