²⁰ The Lord will send on you curses,^(A) confusion and rebuke^(B) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(C) because of the evil^(D) you have done in forsaking him.^[a]

¹⁵ You will be a reproach^(A) and a taunt, a warning^(B) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(C) I the Lord have spoken.^(D)

¹⁶ But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.^(A)