^{18 Ref} Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

^{19 Ref} And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

^{20 Ref} And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

^{21 Ref} They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

^{22 Ref} For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

^{23 Ref} I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

^{24 Ref} They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

^{25 Ref} The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.