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The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32, Verse 16

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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.
King James Version
They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.
American Standard Version
They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods] ; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
New English Translation
They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.
World English Bible
They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
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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: