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.
23. I will heap disasters upon themand shoot them down with my arrows.
24. I will weaken them with famine,burning fever, and deadly disease.I will send the fangs of wild beastsand poisonous snakes that glide in the dust.
25. Outside, the sword will bring death,and inside, terror will strikeboth young men and young women,both infants and the aged.