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.
26. I said that I would scatter them afar.I would make their memory to cease from amongst men;
27. were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,The Lord has not done all this.’”
28. For they are a nation void of counsel.There is no understanding in them.
29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,that they would consider their latter end!
30. How could one chase a thousand,and two put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,and the Lord had delivered them up?
31. For their rock is not as our Rock,even our enemies themselves concede.
32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,of the fields of Gomorrah.Their grapes are poison grapes.Their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is the poison of serpents,the cruel venom of asps.