21. They have made me jealous with what is no god;they have provoked me to anger with their idols.So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
22. For a fire is kindled by my anger,and it burns to the depths of Sheol,devours the earth and its increase,and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23. “‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;
24. they shall be wasted with hunger,and devoured by plagueand poisonous pestilence;I will send the teeth of beasts against them,with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
25. Outdoors the sword shall bereave,and indoors terror,for young man and woman alike,the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26. I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,”
27. had I not feared provocation by the enemy,lest their adversaries should misunderstand,lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
28. “For they are a nation void of counsel,and there is no understanding in them.
29. If they were wise, they would understand this;they would discern their latter end!