⁹ For they were killed by the bites of locusts and flies,
and no healing was found for them
because they deserved to be punished by such things.^(A)

¹⁵ In return for their foolish and wicked thoughts,
which led them astray to worship irrational serpents and worthless animals,
you sent upon them a multitude of irrational creatures to punish them,^(A)

¹⁶ so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.^(A)

²³ Therefore those who lived unrighteously, in a life of folly,
you tormented through their own abominations.^(A)

²⁷ For when in their suffering they became incensed
at those creatures that they had thought to be gods, being punished by means of them,
they saw and recognized as the true God the one whom they had before refused to know.
Therefore the utmost condemnation came upon them.^(A)