²² do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

²¹ They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

¹⁴ Doth thy heart stand -- are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done `it'.

¹⁰ What `is' that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it `is' man, and he is not able to contend with him who is stronger than he.

¹⁶ They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

³¹ fearful `is' the falling into the hands of a living God.

¹⁸ Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

⁹ Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

⁵⁸ And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

⁹ And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on.

¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

¹² See every proud one -- humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

¹³ Hide them in the dust together, Their faces bind in secret.

¹⁴ And even I -- I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.

⁴ Wise in heart and strong in power -- Who hath hardened toward Him and is at peace?

¹⁹ And Joshua saith unto the people, `Ye are not able to serve Jehovah, for a God most holy He `is'; a zealous God He `is'; He doth not bear with your transgression and with your sins.

¹⁵ for a zealous God `is' Jehovah thy God in thy midst -- lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.

²⁴ for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.

¹⁴ for ye do not bow yourselves to another god -- for Jehovah, whose name `is' Zealous, is a zealous God.

⁵ Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,