²⁴ My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.^(A)

⁴ because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods.^(A) Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you,^(B) and he will swiftly destroy you.

¹⁷ My anger will burn against them on that day;^(A) I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey.^(B) Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us?’

¹⁶ If you break the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow in worship to them, the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly disappear from this good land he has given you.”