19 Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned them,

because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

20 So he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;

I will see what will be their end,

for they are a generation of perversity,

⌊children in whom there is no faithfulness⌋.x

21 They annoyed me with what is not a god;

they provoked me with their idols.

So I will make them jealous with those not a people,

with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

22 For a fire was kindledy by my anger,

and it burned ⌊up to the depths of Sheol⌋,z

and it devoured the earth and its produce,

and it set afire the foundation of the mountains.

23 I will heap disasters upon them;

my arrows I will spend on them.

24 They will become weakened by famine,

and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence;

and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them,

with the poison of the creeping things in the dust;

25 From outside her boundaries the sword will make her childless,

and from inside, terror;

both for the young man and also the young woman,

the infant along with the gray-headed man.

26 I thought, “I will wipe them out;

⌊I will make people forget they ever existed⌋.”a

27 If I had not feared a provocation of the enemy,

lest their foes might misunderstand, b

lest they should say, c “Our hand is

⌊triumphant⌋,d and Yahweh did not do all this.” ’

28 For ⌊they are a nation void of sense⌋,e

and there is not any understanding in them.

29 If only they were wise, they would understand this;

they would discern ⌊for themselves their end⌋.f

30 How could one chase a thousand

and two could cause a myriad to flee,

if their Rock had not sold them,

and Yahweh had not given them up?

31 For the fact of the matter is,

their rock is not like our Rock,

and our enemies recognizeg this.

32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,

and from the terraces of Gomorrah;

their grapes are grapes of poison;

⌊their clusters are bitter⌋.h

33 Their wine is the poison of snakes,

and the deadly poison of horned vipers.

34 ‘Is not this stored up with me,

sealed in my treasuries?’i

35 ⌊Vengeance belongs to me⌋j and also recompense,

⌊for at the time their foot slips⌋,k

because the day of their disaster is near,

⌊and fate comes quickly for them⌋.’l

36 For Yahweh will judge on behalf of his people,

and concerning his servants;

he will change his mind when he sees that their power has disappeared,

and there is no one left, confinedm or free.n

37 And he will say, ‘Where are their gods,

their rock in whomo they took refuge?

38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their libations?

Let them rise up, and let them help you;

⌊Let them be to you a refuge⌋.p