Deuteronomy:32:12-39
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So the LORD alone did lead him ,
and there was no strange god with him .
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He made him ride on the high places of the earth ,
that he might eat the increase of the fields ;
and he made him to suck honey out of the rock ,
and oil out of the flinty rock ;
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Butter of kine ,
and milk of sheep ,
with fat of lambs ,
and rams of the breed of Bashan ,
and goats ,
with the fat of kidneys of wheat ;
and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape .
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But Jeshurun waxed fat ,
and kicked :
thou art waxen fat ,
thou art grown thick ,
thou art covered with fatness ;
then he forsook God which made him ,
and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation .
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They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods ,
with abominations provoked they him to anger .
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They sacrificed unto devils ,
not to God ;
to gods whom they knew not ,
to new gods that came newly up ,
whom your fathers feared not .
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Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful ,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee .
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And when the LORD saw it ,
he abhorred them ,
because of the provoking of his sons ,
and of his daughters .
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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 faith .
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They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ;
they have provoked me to anger with their vanities :
and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation .
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For a fire is kindled in mine anger ,
and shall burn unto the lowest hell ,
and shall consume the earth with her increase ,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains .
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I will heap mischiefs upon them ;
I will spend mine arrows upon them .
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They shall be burnt with hunger ,
and devoured with burning heat ,
and with bitter destruction :
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them ,
with the poison of serpents of the dust .
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The sword without ,
and terror within ,
shall destroy both the young man and the virgin ,
the suckling also with the man of gray hairs .
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I said ,
I would scatter them into corners ,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men :
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Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy ,
lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely ,
and lest they should say ,
Our hand is high ,
and the LORD hath not done all this .
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For they are a nation void of counsel ,
neither is there any understanding in them .
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O that they were wise ,
that they understood this ,
that they would consider their latter end !
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How should one chase a thousand ,
and two put ten thousand to flight ,
except their Rock had sold them ,
and the LORD had shut them up ?
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For their rock is not as our Rock ,
even our enemies themselves being judges .
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom ,
and of the fields of Gomorrah :
their grapes are grapes of gall ,
their clusters are bitter :
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Their wine is the poison of dragons ,
and the cruel venom of asps .
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Is not this laid up in store with me ,
and sealed up among my treasures ?
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To me belongeth vengeance ,
and recompence ;
their foot shall slide in due time :
for the day of their calamity is at hand ,
and the things that shall come upon them make haste .
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For the LORD shall judge his people ,
and repent himself for his servants ,
when he seeth that their power is gone ,
and there is none shut up ,
or left .
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And he shall say ,
Where are their gods ,
their rock in whom they trusted ,
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Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices ,
and drank the wine of their drink offerings ?
let them rise up and help you ,
and be your protection .
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See now that I ,
even I ,
am he ,
and there is no god with me :
I kill ,
and I make alive ;
I wound ,
and I heal :
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand .