^{19 Ref} And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

^{20 Ref} And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what `is' their latter end; For a froward generation `are' they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.

^{21 Ref} They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

^{22 Ref} For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

^{23 Ref} I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

^{24 Ref} Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

^{26 Ref} I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

^{27 Ref} If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

^{28 Ref} For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

^{29 Ref} If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:

^{30 Ref} How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?

^{31 Ref} For not as our Rock `is' their rock, (And our enemies `are' judges!)

^{32 Ref} For of the vine of Sodom their vine `is', And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes `are' grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters;

^{33 Ref} The poison of dragons `is' their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

^{34 Ref} Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

^{35 Ref} Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

^{36 Ref} For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.

^{37 Ref} And He hath said, Where `are' their gods -- The rock in which they trusted;

^{38 Ref} Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place!

^{39 Ref} See ye, now, that I -- I `am' He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,

^{40 Ref} For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!

^{41 Ref} If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

^{42 Ref} I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.