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

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

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

²⁷ (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

⁹ you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

²⁵ The engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

²² Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

¹³ The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

¹ An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

² Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.