Deuteronomy 32:15

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Summary

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.

Jeshurun

Deuteronomy 33:5

Isaiah 44:2

Kicked

1 Samuel 2:29

Acts 9:5

Waxen fat

Then he

General references

Deuteronomy 28:47

Judges 10:13

2 Kings 21:22

Bible References

Jeshurun

He was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Kicked

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Waxen fat

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed."

For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Then he

It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,

You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

They took fortified cities, and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

General references

Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more.

and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh.