16. "They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17. "They sacrificed to demons who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not dread.
18. "You neglected the Rock who begot you, And forgot the God who gave you birth.
19. "The Lord saw this, and spurned them Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
20. "Then He said, 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Sons in whom is no faithfulness.
21. 'They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,
22. For a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And consumes the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23. 'I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.
24. 'They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.