18. You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you,and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.
19. But the Lord took note and despised thembecause his sons and daughters enraged him.
20. He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them;for they are a perverse generation,children who show no loyalty.
21. They have made me jealous with false gods,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 I will enrage them.
22. For a fire has been kindled by my anger,and it burns to lowest Sheol;it consumes the earth and its produce,and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
23. I will increase their disasters,I will use up my arrows on them.