NLT 18 You neglected the Rock who had fathered you; you forgot the God who had given you birth. NIV 18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth. NLT 19 “The LORD saw this and drew back, provoked to anger by his own sons and daughters. NIV 19 The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters. NLT 20 He said, ‘I will abandon them; then see what becomes of them. For they are a twisted generation, children without integrity. NIV 20 “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. NLT 21 They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles. NIV 21 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. NLT 22 For my anger blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. It devours the earth and all its crops and ignites the foundations of the mountains. NIV 22 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. NLT 23 I will heap disasters upon them and shoot them down with my arrows. NIV 23 “I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them. NLT 24 I will weaken them with famine, burning fever, and deadly disease. I will send the fangs of wild beasts and poisonous snakes that glide in the dust. NIV 24 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. NLT 25 Outside, the sword will bring death, and inside, terror will strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged. NIV 25 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. NLT 26 I would have annihilated them, wiping out even the memory of them. NIV 26 I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory, NLT 27 But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy, who might misunderstand and say, “Our own power has triumphed! The LORD had nothing to do with this!”’ NIV 27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.’ ” NLT 28 “But Israel is a senseless nation; the people are foolish, without understanding. NIV 28 They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
NIV 18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth. NIV 19 The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters. NIV 20 “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. NIV 21 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. NIV 22 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. NIV 23 “I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them. NIV 24 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. NIV 25 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. NIV 26 I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory, NIV 27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.’ ” NIV 28 They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.