Deuteronomy 32:38
Good News Translation
You fed them the fat of your sacrifices and offered them wine to drink. Let them come and help you now; let them run to your rescue.

New Revised Standard Version
who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!

Contemporary English Version
You offered them wine and your best sacrifices. Can't those gods help you now or give you protection?

New American Bible
Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up now and help you! Let them be your protection!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

eat the fat

Leviticus 21:21 Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God.

Psalm 50:13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Ezekiel 16:18,19 And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them. . . .

Hosea 2:8 And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of Baal.

Zephaniah 2:11 The Lord shall be terrible upon them, and shall consume all the gods of the earth: and they shall adore him every man from his own place, all the islands of the Gentiles.

let them

Judges 10:14 Go, and call upon the gods which you have chosen: let them deliver you in the time of distress.

Context
The Song of Moses
37And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted? 38Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:15
Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Numbers 25:1
And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab,

Numbers 25:2
Who called them to their sacrifices. And they ate of them, and adored their gods.

Jeremiah 11:12
And the cities of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go, and cry to the gods to whom they offer sacrifice, and they shall not save them in the time of their affliction.

Jeremiah 37:19
Now therefore hear, I beseech thee, my lord the king: let my petition be accepted in thy sight: and send me not back into the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

Daniel 1:8
But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not be defiled with the king's table, nor with the wine which he drank: and he requested the master of the eunuchs that he might not be defiled.

Deuteronomy 32:37
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