16  ^tThey stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;

with abominations they provoked him to anger.

17  ^uThey sacrificed to demons that were not God,

to gods they had never known,

to ^vnew gods that had come recently,

whom your fathers had never dreaded.

18  You were unmindful of ^wthe Rock that bore¹ you,

and you ^xforgot the God who gave you birth.

19  ^y“The Lord saw it and spurned them,

because of the provocation of ^zhis sons and his daughters.

20  And he said, ^a‘I will hide my face from them;

I will see what their end will be,

for they are a perverse generation,

children in whom is no faithfulness.