22 My anger will flame up like fireand burn everything on earth.It will reach to the world belowand consume the roots of the mountains.
23 “‘I will bring on them endless disastersand use all my arrows against them.
24 They will die from hunger and fever;they will die from terrible diseases.I will send wild animals to attack them,and poisonous snakes to bite them.
25 War will bring death in the streets;terrors will strike in the homes.Young men and young women will die;neither babies nor old people will be spared.
26 I would have destroyed them completely,so that no one would remember them.
27 But I could not let their enemies boastthat they had defeated my people,when it was I myself who had crushed them.’
28 “Israel is a nation without sense;they have no wisdom at all.