Kommentar zu Dewarim 32:15

עבית has the meaning of “thickness” (stoutness), it therefore means: “ Thou hast waxed fat”.

VAYENABEIL’ THE ROCK OF HIS SALVATION — “he showed contempt for Him and disregarded Him, just as it is said, with their backs towards the Temple of the Eternal, and their faces toward the east.⁵²Ezekiel 8:16. There is no greater contempt than this.” This is Rashi’s language. And Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra commented: “Vayenabeil — that he caused ‘the profaning’ of G-d’s Name so that He would no longer help him.” This interpretation, too, does not appear to me to be correct, for it is not within the context of this place [i.e., this section of the Song], for he is still narrating [here] their sins, and will not state their punishment and vengeance that He would inflict upon them until [further on in the verse], And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them.’⁵³Further, Verse 20. The correct interpretation appears to me to be what I have mentioned above,⁵⁴Above, Verse 6. that the term n’valah is used to describe repaying evil for good. The verse thus states that the people of Israel abandoned the G-d Who created them in favor of strange gods and, in utterance and thought, showed disregard for the Rock Who helped them. [Israel] said “In return for serving Him, there is nothing but repayment of evil. By worshipping the strange gods he shall have plenty of bread;⁵⁵Proverbs 12:11. but when worshipping the Rock they will be contemptible and base before all the people.”⁵⁶Malachi 2:9. As our fools said, It is vain to serve G-d; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked mournfully because of the Eternal of hosts? And now we call the proud happy etc.,⁵⁷Ibid., 3:14-15. and as the accursed women said [to Jeremiah], But since we let off to offer to the queen of heaven etc., we have wanted all things.⁵⁸Jeremiah 44:18. Similarly [the prophet Jeremiah prayed], Do not abhor us, for Thy Name’s sake, do not dishonor the throne of Thy glory⁵⁹Ibid., 14:21. because they will say of Him that He repays His people with evil for good, just as [the prophet] said, Break not Thy covenant with us.⁵⁹Ibid., 14:21.

וישמן ישורון ויבעט, however, even the most erudite of them, the ones known admiringly as Yeshurun, (based on Bileam’s prophecy of אשורנו ולא קרוב, in Numbers 24,17) acted as if they were animals, kicking the very people who give them food.