11. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,hovers over its young,spreads its wings to catch them,and carries them on its feathers,
12. so the Lord alone led his people.No foreign god was with him.
13. He made them ride on the heights of the earthand fed them with the produce of the fields.He gave them honey from rocksand olive oil from solid rock.
14. They ate cheese from cowsand drank milk from sheep and goats.He gave them fat from lambs,rams from the stock of Bashan,male goats, and the best wheat.They drank the blood-red wine of grapes.
15. Jeshurun got fat and disrespectful.(You got fat! You were stuffed! You were gorged!)They abandoned the God who made themand treated the rock of their salvation like a fool.
16. They made him furious because they worshiped foreign godsand angered him because they worshiped worthless idols.
17. They sacrificed to demons that are not God,to gods they never heard of.These were new gods, who came from nearby,gods your ancestors never worshiped.
18. (You ignored the rock who fathered youand forgot the God who gave you life.)
19. The Lord saw this and rejected them,because his own sons and daughters had made him angry.
20. He said, “I will turn away from themand find out what will happen to them.They are devious people,children who can’t be trusted.
21. They made him furious because they worshiped foreign godsand angered him because they worshiped worthless idols.So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealousand a nation of godless fools to make them angry.
22. My anger has started a firethat will burn to the depths of hell.It will consume the earth and its cropsand set the foundations of the mountains on fire.
23. I will bring one disaster after another on them.I will use up all my arrows on them.
24. They will be starved by faminesand ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics.I will send vicious animals against themalong with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.
25. Foreign wars will kill off their children,and even at home there will be horrors.Young men and young women alike will dieas well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.
26. I said that I would cut them in pieces and erase everyone’s memory of them.
27. But I didn’t want their enemies to make me angry.I didn’t want their opponents to misunderstand and say,‘We won this victory!It wasn’t the Lord who did all this!’ ”
28. My people have lost their good sense.They are not able to understand.