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32.14 :And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats,
 * With the kidney-fat of wheat;
 * And of the blood of the grape thou drankest foaming wine.


 * But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked—
 * Thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross—
 * And he forsook God who made him,
 * And contemned the Rock of his salvation.
 * They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods,
 * With abominations did they provoke Him.
 * They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods,
 * Gods that they knew not,
 * New gods that came up of late,
 * Which your fathers dreaded not.
 * Of the Rock that begot thee thou wast unmindful,
 * And didst forget God that bore thee.


 * And the saw, and spurned,
 * Because of the provoking of His sons and His daughters.
 * And He said: 'I will hide My face from them,
 * I will see what their end shall be;
 * For they are a very froward generation,
 * Children in whom is no faithfulness.
 * They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god;
 * They have provoked Me with their vanities;
 * And I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people;
 * I will provoke them with a vile nation.
 * For a fire is kindled in My nostril,
 * And burneth unto the depths of the nether-world,
 * And devoureth the earth with her produce,
 * And setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.


 * I will heap evils upon them;
 * I will spend Mine arrows upon them;
 * The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt,
 * And bitter destruction;
 * And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them,
 * With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
 * Without shall the sword bereave,
 * And in the chambers terror;
 * Slaying both young man and virgin,
 * The suckling with the man of gray hairs.


 * I thought I would make an end of them,
 * I would make their memory cease from among men;
 * Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation,
 * Lest their adversaries should misdeem,
 * Lest they should say: Our hand is exalted,
 * And not the hath wrought all this.'


 * For they are a nation void of counsel,
 * And there is no understanding in them.
 * If they were wise, they would understand this,
 * They would discern their latter end.
 * How should one chase a thousand,
 * And two put ten thousand to flight,
 * Except their Rock had given them over
 * And the had delivered them up?
 * For their rock is not as our Rock,