⁹ For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

³⁵ And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.

³⁶ As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.

³⁵ And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

⁵ 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;

² Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

⁵ Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.

¹³ The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

²⁶ Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.

²⁹ Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

² Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;