17. They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.
18. Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten ·God who brought thee forth.
19. And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.
20. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
21. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no ·God They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.
22. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.
23. I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.