CLV(i)
15 When Yeshurun grew stout and kicked (you will be stout, thick and burly), then he abandoned Eloah Who had made him and disgraced the Rock of his salvation.
16 They made Him jealous with alien gods, with abhorrences they provoked Him to vexation.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not Eloah, to elohim--they had not known them before--to new ones that came from nearby; your fathers were not horrified by them.
18 The Rock Who generated you, you were oblivious of Him, and you forgot the El travailing with you.
19 Yahweh saw and spurned them because of the vexation caused by His sons and His daughters.
20 And he said:Let Me conceal My face from them; I shall examine what their latter days are to be. For they are a wayward generation, sons with no faithfulness in them.
21 As for them, they make Me jealous with a non-el. They provoke Me to vexation with their idols of vanity. As for Me, I shall make them jealous with a non-people; with a decadent nation shall I cause them vexation.
22 For a fire will be kindled by My anger, and it shall glow unto the unseen beneath; it shall devour the earth and its crop, and it shall set aflame the foundations of the mountains.
23 I shall cause evils to sweep up over them; I shall exhaust My arrows among them
24 who are gaunt with famine, fought by pestilence and bitter sting:Even the tooth of beasts shall I send among them along with the venom of skulkers of the soil.
25 From the outside, the sword shall bereave, and from the chambers, the dread of war, even for the man in his prime, even for the virgin, the suckling along with the grey-haired man.
26 I would say:I might blow them away, I might eradicate their remembrance from mortals,