14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep with fat of the lambs, and rams fed in Bashan, and goats, with the fat of the grains of wheat: and the red [a]liquor of the grape hast thou drunk.

15 ¶ But he that should have been [b]upright, when he waxed fat, spurned with his heel: thou art fat, thou art gross, thou art laden with fatness: therefore he forsook God that made him, and regarded not the strong God of his salvation.

16 They provoked him with [c]strange gods: they provoked him to anger with abominations.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:14 Hebrew, blood.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:15 He showeth what is the principal end of our vocation.
  3. Deuteronomy 32:16 By changing his service for their superstitions.

14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(A)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(B)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(C)

15 Jeshurun[a](D) grew fat(E) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(F) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock(G) their Savior.
16 They made him jealous(H) with their foreign gods
    and angered(I) him with their detestable idols.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.