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.

¹⁹ But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by `that which is' not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

²⁶ and walketh in all the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and in his sin that he caused Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.

¹³ concerning all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.

¹⁰ and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye `are' not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;

⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

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

⁶ I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

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

¹¹ I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation `is' to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

¹² and if the fall of them `is' the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

¹³ For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

¹⁴ if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

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

²⁵ as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what `is' not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved,

¹⁵ `And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,

²² Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!

⁸ And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.

¹⁹ Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

²¹ and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they `are' vain,

⁹ and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

¹⁰ who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.