22. My anger has started a firethat burns down to the place of the dead.It will burn up the ground and its crops,and it will set fire to the base of the mountains.
23. “I will pile troubles upon themand shoot my arrows at them.
24. They will be starved and sick,destroyed by terrible diseases.I will send them vicious animalsand gliding, poisonous snakes.
25. In the streets the sword will kill;in their homes there will be terror.Young men and women will die,and so will babies and gray-haired men.
26. I will scatter them as I said,and no one will remember them.
27. But I didn’t want their enemy to brag;their enemy might misunderstandand say, ‘We have won!The Lord has done none of this.’ ”
28. Israel has no sense;they do not understand.
29. I wish they were wise and understood this;I wish they could see what will happen to them.