16. They made God jealous with foreign gods.They made him angry with hated idols.
17. They made sacrifices to demons, not God.They were gods they had never known.They were new gods from nearby.Your ancestors did not fear them.
18. You left God who is the Rock, your Father.You forgot the God who gave you birth.
19. The Lord saw this and rejected them.His sons and daughters had made him angry.
20. He said, “I will turn away from them.I will see what will happen to them.They are evil people.They are unfaithful children.
21. They used things that are not gods to make me jealous.They used worthless idols to make me angry.So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous.I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry.
22. My anger has started a fire.It burns down to where the dead are.It will burn up the ground and its crops.And it will set fire to the mountains.
23. “I will pile troubles upon them.I will shoot my arrows at them.
24. They will be starved and sick.They will be destroyed by terrible diseases.I will send them vicious animalsand gliding, poisonous snakes.