18. The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.
19. And Jehovah seeth and despiseth--For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20. 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. 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. 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. I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
24. 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. Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers--fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.
26. I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
27. 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. For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them.
29. If they were wise--They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end:
30. 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. For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!)
32. 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. The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
34. Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?
35. 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.