Deu 32:15, 20, 2Ki 17:7-23, 22:13-17, Isa 1:2-5, 50:1, 59:1-3, 12-15 | ESV | STEP | But Jeshurun grew fat , and kicked ; you grew fat , stout , and sleek ; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation .

15 “But ^aJeshurun grew fat, and ^bkicked;
^cyou grew fat, stout, and sleek;
^dthen he forsook God ^ewho made him
and scoffed at ^fthe Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 32:20

20 And he said, ^g‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.

2 Kings 17:7-23

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^hwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 ⁱand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^jand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^kfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^lpillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, ^mof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord ⁿwarned Israel and Judah ^oby every prophet ^pand every seer, saying, ^q“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, ^rbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes ^sand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^tfalse idols ^uand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^vLord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^wtwo calves; and they ^xmade an Asherah and ^yworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^zBaal. 17 ^aaAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ^{▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire} and used ^acdivination and ^adomens and ^aesold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^afthe tribe of Judah only.

19 ^agJudah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^ahand gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

21 ^aiWhen he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^ajthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ^akand made them commit great sin. 22 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^alas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^amSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

2 Kings 22:13-17

13 “Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is ^anthe wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of ^aoTikvah, son of ^apHarhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in ^aqthe Second Quarter), and they talked with her. 15 And she said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me, 16 Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read. 17 ^arBecause they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore ^asmy wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.

Isaiah 1:2-5

The Wickedness of Judah

2 ^atHear, O heavens, and give ear, O ^auearth;
for the Lord has spoken:
“Children ^{▼▼Or Sons; also verse 4} ^awhave I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox ^axknows its owner,
and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does ^aynot know,
my people do not understand.”
4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
^azoffspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have ^badespised ^bbthe Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly ^bcestranged.
5 Why will you still be ^bdstruck down?
Why will you ^becontinue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 50:1

Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

1 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is ^bfyour mother’s certificate of divorce,
with which ^bgI sent her away?
Or ^bhwhich of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
^biBehold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Isaiah 59:1-3

Evil and Oppression

1 Behold, ^bjthe Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
2 ^bkbut your iniquities have made a separation
between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden his face from you
so that he does not hear.
3 ^blFor your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:12-15

12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:
13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
and turning back from following our God,
^bmspeaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Judgment and Redemption

14 ^bnJustice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.
15 Truth is lacking,
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Lord saw it, and it displeased him ^{▼▼Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes}
that there was no justice.