18. Of the Tzur that fathered thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten El that formed thee.
19. And when Hashem saw it, He spurned them, because of the provoking of His banim, and of His banot.
20. And He said, I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, banim in whom is no faithfulness.
21. They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is lo El (not G-d), they have provoked Me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are lo Am (a nonpeople); I will provoke them to anger with a goy naval (foolish, senseless nation) [Ro 10:19].
22. For an eish is kindled in Mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest Sheol, and shall devour Eretz and her increase, and set on fire the foundations of harim.
23. I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend Mine khitzim (arrows) upon them.
24. They shall be burned with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction; I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the venom of serpents of the aphar (dust).
25. The cherev without, and terror within, shall destroy both the bochur and the betulah, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26. I said, I will dash them in pieces, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
27. Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misinterpret, and lest they should say, Our hand is triumphant, and Hashem hath not done all this.