Deuteronomy 32:19
The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
18Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.
Cross References
Judges 2:14And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:
Psalms 82:6I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High.
Isaiah 1:2Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.
Jeremiah 44:21Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and Sour fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart?
Amos 3:2You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:16-19
15 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. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 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. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.… Read the whole commentary →