And you forget your Maker, Jehovah, who has stretched out the heavens and founded the earth. And you dread continually, every day, from the fury of the oppressor, since he was ready to destroy. And where is the fury of the one oppressing?
Their Redeemer is strong, Jehovah of Hosts is His name. Striving He shall strive in their strife, so that He may give rest to the land, and make to tremble those living in Babylon.
For Israel and Judah have not become widowed ones by his God, by Jehovah of Hosts, though their land was filled with guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
But you are “an elect race,” “a royal priesthood,” “a holy nation,” “a people for possession,” so that “you may proclaim the excellencies” of the One who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; LXX-Ex. 23:22; MT-Ex. 19:5, 6