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Deuteronomy 32:17

World English Bible

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.

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Deuteronomy 32:17 in other translations

They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.

Deuteronomy 32:17 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 32:17 in context

  1. 15But 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.
  2. 16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods.
    They provoked him to anger with abominations.
  3. 17They 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.
  4. 18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,
    and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
  5. 19Yahweh saw and abhorred,
    because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.