17. They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God,to gods they had not known before,to new gods only recently arrived,to gods their ancestors had never feared.
18. You neglected the Rock who had fathered you;you forgot the God who had given you birth.
19. “The lord saw this and drew back,provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters.
20. He said, ‘I will abandon them;then see what becomes of them.For they are a twisted generation,children without integrity.
21. They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.
22. For my anger blazes forth like fireand burns to the depths of the grave.It devours the earth and all its cropsand ignites the foundations of the mountains.