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

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

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

²⁷ (for all these abominations have the men of the land done who `are' before you, and the land is defiled),

⁹ thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third `generation', and on a fourth, to those hating Me;

²⁵ `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken `it' to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it `is';

²² And Judah doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and they make Him zealous above all that their fathers did by their sins that they have sinned.

¹³ And the high places that `are' on the front of Jerusalem, that `are' on the right of the mount of corruption, that Solomon king of Israel had built to Ashtoreth abomination of the Zidonians, and Chemosh abomination of Moab, and to Milcom abomination of the sons of Ammon, hath the king defiled.

¹ Burden of Nineveh. The Book of the Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

² A God zealous and avenging `is' Jehovah, An avenger `is' Jehovah, and possessing fury. An avenger `is' Jehovah on His adversaries, And He is watching for His enemies.