⁵ They are corrupt and not his children;
    to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.^(A)

¹⁰ In a desert^(A) land he found him,
    in a barren and howling waste.^(B)
He shielded^(C) him and cared for him;
    he guarded him as the apple of his eye,^(D)

²⁰ “I will hide my face^(A) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,^(B)
    children who are unfaithful.^(C)

²³ “I will heap calamities^(A) on them
    and spend my arrows^(B) against them.

²⁴ I will send wasting famine^(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence^(B) and deadly plague;^(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,^(D)
    the venom of vipers^(E) that glide in the dust.^(F)

²⁸ They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment^(A) in them.

³² Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom^(A)
    and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,^(B)
    and their clusters with bitterness.^(C)
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.^(D)

³⁴ “Have I not kept this in reserve
    and sealed it in my vaults?^(E)
35 It is mine to avenge;^(F) I will repay.^(G)
    In due time their foot will slip;^(H)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.^(I)”