Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I YY thy Elohim am a jealous Elohim, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
And Y'howshu`a said unto the people, Ye cannot serve YY : for he is an holy Elohim; he is a jealous Elohim; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Therefore thus saith YY Elohim; Now will I bring again the captivity of Yaakov, and have mercy upon the whole house of Yisrael, and will be jealous for my holy name;
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.
Circumcise yourselves to YY , and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Yhudah and inhabitants of Yerushalayim: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Awake, awake, stand up, O Yerushalayim, which hast drunk at the hand of YY the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
For he is the minister of Elohim to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of Elohim, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith YY -TZvaot; I am jealous for Yerushalayim and for TZiyon with a great jealousy.
Who is an Elohim like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Yisrael, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith YY Elohim; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I YY have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
It may be they will present their supplication before YY , and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that YY hath pronounced against this people.
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Pinchas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aharon the kohen, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Yisrael, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Yisrael in my jealousy.
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of YY : take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.