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"^(C1)But ^(F1)Jeshurun became fat and kicked— You have become fat, thick, and obstinate— ^(C2)Then he abandoned God ^(C3)who made him, And ^(F2)rejected ^(C4)the Rock of his salvation.

-"^(C1)They made Him jealous with strange gods; ^(C2)With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

-"^(C1)They sacrificed to demons, who were not God, ^(C2)To gods whom they have not known, ^(C3)New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not know.

-"You forgot ^(C1)the Rock who fathered you, ^(C2)And forgot the God who gave you birth.

"^(C1)The LORD saw this, and spurned them ^(C2)Because of the provocation by His sons and daughters.

-"Then He said, 'I will hide My face from them, ^(C1)I will see what their end will be; ^(C2)For they are a perverse generation, ^(C3)Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.

-'^(C1)They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their ^(F1)(C2)idols. ^(C3)So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

^(C1)For a fire has flared in My anger, And it burns to the lowest part of ^(F1)Sheol, ^(C2)And devours the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

'^(C1)I will add misfortunes to them; ^(C2)I will use up My arrows on them.

-'^(C1)They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by ^(F1)plague ^(C2)And a bitter epidemic; ^(C3)And the teeth of beasts I will send against them, ^(C4)With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

-'^(C1)Outside the sword will make them childless, And inside, terror— ^(C2)Both young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hair.