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16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with detestable practices.
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They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.
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.
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They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who brought you forth.
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You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 When the Lord saw [this], He despised [them], provoked [to anger] by His sons and daughters.
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The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered 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.
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“I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
21 They have provoked My jealousy with [their] so-called gods; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with an inferior people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
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They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.
22 For fire has been kindled because of My anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
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For a fire will be kindled by my wrath, one that burns down to the realm of the dead below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will pile disasters on them; I will use up My arrows against them.
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“I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.
24 They will be weak from hunger, ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs, as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
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I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the virgin [will be killed], the infant and the gray-haired man.
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In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.
26 I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
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I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,
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