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

¹⁹ But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

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

¹⁰ Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

⁸ Those who 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 engraved images.

⁶ I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.

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

¹¹ I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to 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 fullness?

¹³ For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

¹⁴ if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who 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 says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; And her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

¹⁵ 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 sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have 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: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

²¹ and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

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

¹⁰ who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.