17. They sacrificed to gods that are not real,new gods their ancestors had never known,gods that Israel had never obeyed,
18. They forgot their God, their mighty saviour,the one who had given them life.
19. “When the Lord saw this, he was angryand rejected his sons and daughters.
20. ‘I will no longer help them,’ he said;‘then I will see what happens to them,those stubborn, unfaithful people.
21. With their idols they have made me angry,jealous with their so-called gods,gods that are really not gods.So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry;I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
22. My anger will flame up like fireand burn everything on earth.It will reach to the world belowand consume the roots of the mountains.
23. “ ‘I will bring on them endless disastersand use all my arrows against them.
24. They will die from hunger and fever;they will die from terrible diseases.I will send wild animals to attack them,and poisonous snakes to bite them.