21 lThey have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;

They have moved Me to anger mby their 6foolish idols.

But nI will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;

I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

22 For oa fire is kindled in My anger,

And shall burn to the 7lowest 8hell;

It shall consume the earth with her increase,

And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 ‘I will pheap disasters on them;

qI will spend My arrows on them.

24 They shall be wasted with hunger,

Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;

I will also send against them the rteeth of beasts,

With the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword shall destroy outside;

There shall be terror within

For the young man and virgin,

The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26 sI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,

I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,

Lest they should say, t“Our hand is high;

And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,

Nor is there any understanding in them.

29 uOh, that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider their vlatter end!