📜WEB · Deuteronomy 32:17
What does Deuteronomy 32:17 mean?
"They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread."
— Deuteronomy 32:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
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