For thou art an holy people unto YY thy Elohim: YY thy Elohim hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of Elohim: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the good news of Elohim?
And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Yerushalayim.
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
Thus saith YY unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore YY doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?
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 Yaakov, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith YY ; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his Throne at the entering of the gates of Yerushalayim, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Yhudah.
These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but YY accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith YY .
For I know Him, that He will Command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of YY , to do justice and judgment; that YY may bring upon Avraham that which He hath spoken of him.
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that Elohim created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Thus saith YY ; For three transgressions of Yhudah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the Torah of YY , and have not kept His Commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
Therefore thus saith YY ; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.