² for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

² and if thou art refusing to send away, lo, I am smiting all thy border with frogs;

⁹ and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory.

²¹ and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

²² lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

²⁰ And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, `By' the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

²¹ Only -- God doth smite The head of His enemies, The hairy crown of a habitual walker in his guilt.

¹¹ God `is' a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.

¹² If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,

²⁷ `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

²⁸ then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

²³ `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me `in' opposition,

²⁴ then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

¹⁴ `And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

¹⁵ and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands -- to your breaking My covenant --

¹⁶ I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

⁴ for if thou art refusing to send My people away, lo, I am bringing in to-morrow the locust into thy border,

²³ and I say unto thee, Send away My son, and he doth serve Me; and -- thou dost refuse to send him away -- lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born.'