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.
24. They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
25. From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror--Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
26. I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27. If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
28. For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.
29. Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
30. How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
31. For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.
32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.
34. Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?