15 And [Jacob ate, and] Israel grew fat, and became obstinate; fattened, fattened, and fattened; and he forsook the God who created him, and despised the stronghold of his salvation.

16 With strange gods they provoked him to anger, and with their abominations they provoked him to anger.

17 And they offered sacrifices to demons, and not to God, to gods whom they did not know, to new gods, which came from their neighbours, and of whom your fathers had not thought.

18 But thou hast forgotten the Advocate who begat thee, and hast not remembered the God who created thee.

19 And the Lord saw [and was indignant], and in indignation despised his sons and his daughters,

20 And he said, 'I will hide my face from them, and I will see what their end will be; for they are a corrupt generation; children in whom there is no fidelity;

21 And they have provoked Me not with God, but with their vain things they have grieved Me: and I will not provoke them to anger with a people, but with a people of sense.

22 For a fire is kindled in my wrath, it burneth unto hell under the earth, and consumeth the earth and its produce, and burneth the foundations of the mountains.

23 I will gather calamities upon them, and I will exhaust my arrows upon them;

24 будут истощены голодом, истреблены горячкою и лютою заразою; и пошлю на них зубы зверей и яд ползающих по земле;

25 извне будет губить их меч, а в домах ужас – и юношу, и девицу, и грудного младенца, и покрытого сединою старца.

26 Я сказал бы: рассею их и изглажу из среды людей память о них;

27 но отложил это ради озлобления врагов, чтобы враги его не возомнили и не сказали: наша рука высока, и не Господь сделал все сие.

28 Ибо они народ, потерявший рассудок, и нет в них смысла.