¹⁶ The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

⁵⁸ They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

²² Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

²⁷ (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

⁹ You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

²⁵ The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

²² And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

¹³ And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

¹ The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

² The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.