For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

When the wicked, {even} mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. {came...: Heb. approached against me}

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye} fools, when will ye be wise?

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

{Ye} fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. {out...: Heb. moved}

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

When the wicked, {even} mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. {came...: Heb. approached against me}

My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. {consumed...: Heb. cut me off}

There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.