¹⁹ “Adonai saw, and He spurned His sons
and His daughters out of vexation.
²⁰ He said, “I will hide My face from them,
I want to see their hereafter.
For they are an upside down generation,
    children with no faithfulness in them.
²¹ They made Me jealous with a non-god.
They vexed Me with airy idols.
So I will make them jealous with a non-people.
With a foolish nation I will vex them.^[a]
22 For fire has ignited in My nostrils—
it will burn to Sheol beneath,
devour the earth and her produce,
and scorch the foundations of mountains.
²³ I will heap calamities upon them.
With My arrows I will finish them.
²⁴ Wasted by famine, ravaged by plague
    and pestilence so bitter,
fangs of beasts I’ll let loose on them,
    with venom of creepers in the dust.
²⁵ Outside the sword deals death,
    and inside terror—
to both young men and young women,
    infants, with men of gray hair.
²⁶ I would have said,
‘I will hack them to pieces,
make the memory of them cease from mankind,’
²⁷ except I dread the taunt of the enemy,
lest their foes might misconstrue—
lest they say, ‘Our hand is held high,
and Adonai has not done all this.’
²⁸ For they are a nation lacking counsel,
among them there is no understanding.