^{19 Ref} Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

^{20 Ref} He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

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

^{22 Ref} For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

^{23 Ref} I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:

^{24 Ref} [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

^{26 Ref} I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;

^{27 Ref} Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.

^{28 Ref} For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.

^{29 Ref} Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

^{30 Ref} How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?

^{31 Ref} For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

^{32 Ref} For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, Of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

^{33 Ref} Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

^{34 Ref} Isn't this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

^{35 Ref} Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, The things that are to come on them shall make haste.

^{36 Ref} For Yahweh will judge his people, Repent himself for his servants; When he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.

^{37 Ref} He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

^{38 Ref} Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

^{39 Ref} See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand.

^{40 Ref} For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

^{41 Ref} If I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, Will recompense those who hate me.

^{42 Ref} I will make my arrows drunk with blood, My sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.