Deuteronomy 32:21
21 They have made me jealous ▼
▼sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.
with false gods, ▼▼tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”
enraging me with their worthless gods; ▼
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, ▼
with a nation slow to learn ▼
▼tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”
I will enrage them.
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