17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,to gods they had not known,new gods that had just arrived,which your fathers did not fear.
18 You ignored the Rock who gave you birth;you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
19 When the Lord saw this, He despised them,provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
20 He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will become of them,for they are a perverse generation —unfaithful children.
21 They have provoked My jealousywith their so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousywith an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
22 For fire has been kindled because of My angerand burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce,and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
23 “I will pile disasters on them;I will use up My arrows against them.