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What does Deuteronomy 32:18 mean?

"Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth."

— Deuteronomy 32:18 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

15

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.

16

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

17

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.

18

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

19

Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

20

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.

21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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