⁵ Her foes have become her masters;
    her enemies are at ease.
The Lord has brought her grief^(A)
    because of her many sins.^(B)
Her children have gone into exile,^(C)
    captive before the foe.^(D)

¹⁴ All your allies^(A) have forgotten you;
    they care nothing for you.
I have struck you as an enemy^(B) would
    and punished you as would the cruel,^(C)
because your guilt is so great
    and your sins^(D) so many.
¹⁵ Why do you cry out over your wound,
    your pain that has no cure?^(E)
Because of your great guilt and many sins
    I have done these things to you.^(F)

⁷ We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.
⁸ You have set our iniquities before you,
    our secret sins^(A) in the light of your presence.^(B)

¹⁵ Jeshurun^[a](A) grew fat^(B) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned^(C) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock^(D) their Savior.
¹⁶ They made him jealous^(E) with their foreign gods
    and angered^(F) him with their detestable idols.
¹⁷ They sacrificed^(G) to false gods,^(H) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,^(I)
    gods that recently appeared,^(J)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
¹⁸ You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot^(K) the God who gave you birth.

¹⁹ The Lord saw this and rejected them^(L)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.^(M)
20 “I will hide my face^(N) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,^(O)
    children who are unfaithful.^(P)
21 They made me jealous^(Q) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.^(R)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.^(S)
22 For a fire will be kindled by my wrath,^(T)
    one that burns down to the realm of the dead below.^(U)
It will devour^(V) the earth and its harvests^(W)
    and set afire the foundations of the mountains.^(X)

²³ “I will heap calamities^(Y) on them
    and spend my arrows^(Z) against them.
²⁴ I will send wasting famine^(AA) against them,
    consuming pestilence^(AB) and deadly plague;^(AC)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,^(AD)
    the venom of vipers^(AE) that glide in the dust.^(AF)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror^(AG) will reign.^(AH)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.^(AI)
26 I said I would scatter^(AJ) them
    and erase their name from human memory,^(AK)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand^(AL)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”^(AM)