A Word of Judgment

32:19 But the Lord took note and despised them

because his sons and daughters enraged him.

32:20 He said, “I will reject them,38

I will see what will happen to them;

for they are a perverse generation,

children39 who show no loyalty.

32:21 They have made me jealous40 with false gods,41

enraging me with their worthless gods;42

so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize,43

with a nation slow to learn44 I will enrage them.

32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol;45

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

32:23 I will increase their46 disasters,

I will use up my arrows on them.

32:24 They will be starved by famine,

eaten by plague, and bitterly stung;47

I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,

along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.

32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,

and terror will do so inside;

they will destroy48 both the young man and the virgin,

the infant and the gray-haired man.