⁴ I will send them great trouble—
    all the things they feared.
For when I called, they did not answer.
    When I spoke, they did not listen.
They deliberately sinned before my very eyes
    and chose to do what they know I despise.”

¹² now I will ‘destine’ you for the sword.
    All of you will bow down before the executioner.
For when I called, you did not answer.
    When I spoke, you did not listen.
You deliberately sinned—before my very eyes—
    and chose to do what you know I despise.”

²⁴ The fears of the wicked will be fulfilled;
    the hopes of the godly will be granted.

²⁴ “I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come.
    I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.

³¹ Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.
³² For simpletons turn away from me—to death.
    Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

¹² So I let them follow their own stubborn desires,
    living according to their own ideas.