Deuteronomy 32:18

Of the Rock who had begotten thee, thou wast unmindful,—And didst forget GOD who had given thee birth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

In Context

17They sacrificed to mischievous demons to a No-GOD, Gods whom they knew not,—New ones lately come in, Your fathers never shuddered at them!

19When Yahweh saw, he derided,—Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:11Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Yahweh thy God,—so as not to keep his commandments and his regulations and his statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day;

Deuteronomy 8:19But it shall be if thou forget, Yahweh thy God, and go after ether gods, and serve them, and bow thyself down to them, I testify against you to-day, that ye shall perish:

Deuteronomy 32:15Then Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou wast fat, Thou wast thick, Thou wast gorged, So he forsook the GOD who made him, And treated as foolish his Rock of salvation.

Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,

Isaiah 17:10Because thou didst forget the God of thy salvation, And thy Rock of refuge, thou didst not remember, For this cause, shalt thou plant very pleasant plants, And, the slip of a stranger, shalt thou set:

Jeremiah 2:31O generation see, ye, the word of Yahweh, A desert, became I unto Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore, have my people said, We have roved about, We will not come in any more unto thee?

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 →

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