²¹ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

¹⁹ But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

²⁶ For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

¹³ for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

¹⁰ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, `Ye are' the sons of the living God.

⁸ They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁶ I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.

¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with strange `gods'; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

¹¹ I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation `is come' unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

¹² Now if their fall, is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

¹³ But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

¹⁴ if by any means I may provoke to jealousy `them that are' my flesh, and may save some of them.

²² Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

²⁵ As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.

⁸ But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

²¹ and turn ye not aside; for `then would ye go' after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

⁹ But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for `God's' own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

¹⁰ who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.