C. S. Lewis Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Клайв Стейплз Льюис

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      Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.

      You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!

      He abandoned God who made him,

      and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

      ¹⁶ They made him jealous with strange gods,

      with abhorrent things they provoked him.

      ¹⁷ They sacrificed to demons, not God,

      to deities they had never known,

      to new ones recently arrived,

      whom your ancestors had not feared.

¹⁸ You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you;[74]

      you forgot the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹ The LORD saw it, and was jealous;[75]

he spurned[76] his sons and daughters.

      ²⁰ He said: I will hide my face from them,

      I will see what their end will be;

      for they are a perverse generation,

      children in whom there is no faithfulness.

      ²¹ They made me jealous with what is no god,

      provoked me with their idols.

      So I will make them jealous with what is no people,

      provoke them with a foolish nation.

      ²² For a fire is kindled by my anger,

      and burns to the depths of Sheol;

      it devours the earth and its increase,

      and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

      ²³ I will heap disasters upon them,

      spend my arrows against them:

      ²⁴ wasting hunger,

      burning consumption,

      bitter pestilence.

      The teeth of beasts I will send against them,

      with venom of things crawling in the dust.

      ²⁵ In the street the sword shall bereave,

      and in the chambers terror,

      for young man and woman alike,

      nursing child and old gray head.

²⁶ I thought to scatter them[77]

      and blot out the memory of them from humankind;

      ²⁷ but I feared provocation by the enemy,

      for their adversaries might misunderstand

      and say, “Our hand is triumphant;

      it was not the LORD who did all this.”

      ²⁸ They are a nation void of sense;

      there is no understanding in them.

      ²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this;

      they would discern what the end would be.

      ³⁰ How could one have routed a thousand,

      and two put a myriad to flight,

      unless their Rock had sold them,

      the LORD had given them up?

      ³¹ Indeed their rock is not like our Rock;

      our enemies are fools.[77]

      ³² Their vine comes from the vinestock of Sodom,

      from the vineyards of Gomorrah;

      their grapes are grapes of poison,

      their clusters are bitter;

      ³³ their wine is the poison of serpents,

      the cruel venom of asps.

      ³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me,

      sealed up in my treasuries?

      ³⁵ Vengeance is mine, and recompense,

      for the time when their foot shall slip;

      because the day of their calamity is at hand,

      their doom comes swiftly.

      ³⁶ Indeed the LORD will vindicate his people,

      have compassion on his servants,

      when he sees that their power is gone,

      neither bond nor free remaining.

      ³⁷ Then he will say: Where are their gods,

      the rock in which they took refuge,

      ³⁸ who ate the fat of their sacrifices,

      and drank the wine of their libations?

      Let them rise up and help you,

      let them be your protection!

      ³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he;

      there is no god besides me.

      I kill and I make alive;

      I wound and I heal;

      and no one can deliver from my hand.

      ⁴⁰ For I lift up my hand to heaven,

      and swear: As I live forever,

      ⁴¹ when I whet my flashing sword,

      and my hand takes hold on judgment;

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