18. Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful,and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
19. The Lord saw and abhorred,because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
20. He said, “I will hide my face from them.I will see what their end will be;for they are a very perverse generation,children in whom is no faithfulness.
21. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God.They have provoked me to anger with their vanities.I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people.I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22. For a fire is kindled in my anger,that burns to the lowest Sheol,devours the earth with its increase,and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
23. “I will heap evils on them.I will spend my arrows on them.
24. They shall be wasted with hunger,and devoured with burning heatand bitter destruction.I will send the teeth of animals on them,with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25. Outside the sword will bereave,and in the rooms, terror;on both young man and virgin,the nursing infant with the grey-haired man.