18. “You neglected the Rock who brought you forth, And forgot the Ěl who fathered you.
19. “And יהוה saw, and despised, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20. “And He said, ‘Let Me hide My face from them, Let Me see what their end is, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom there is no trusting.
21. “They made Me jealous by what is not Ěl, They provoked Me with their worthless matters. But I make them jealous by those who are no people, I provoke them with a foolish nation.
22. “For a fire was kindled in My wrath And burns to the bottom of She’ol, And consumes the earth and its increase, And sets on fire the foundations of mountains.
23. “I gather evils upon them, I use up My arrows upon them –
24. “Wasted by scarcity of food, And consumed by heat and bitter destruction, And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With the poison of serpents of the dust.
25. “The sword bereaves from the outside, And fear from within, Both young man and maiden, Nursing child with the man of grey hairs.
26. “I said, ‘I should blow them away, I should make the remembrance of them To cease from among men,