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21 (A)With their idols they have made me angry,
    jealous with their so-called gods,
    gods that are really not gods.
So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry;
    I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.
22 My anger will flame up like fire
    and burn everything on earth.
It will reach to the world below[a]
    and consume the roots of the mountains.

23 “‘I will bring on them endless disasters
    and use all my arrows against them.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:22 This refers to the world of the dead.

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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