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21 (A) You worshiped worthless idols,
and made me jealous
    and angry!
Now I will send a cruel[a]
    and worthless nation
to make you jealous and angry.

22 “My people, I will breathe out fire
that sends you down
    to the world of the dead.
It will scorch your farmlands
and burn deep down
    under the mountains.
23 I'll send disaster after disaster
    to strike you like arrows.

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Footnotes

  1. 32.21 cruel: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

21 They made me jealous(A) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(B)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(C)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,(D)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.(E)
It will devour(F) the earth and its harvests(G)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.(H)

23 “I will heap calamities(I) on them
    and spend my arrows(J) against them.

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