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They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
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They sacrificed to demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they didn`t know, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers didn`t dread.
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Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth.
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Yahweh saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
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He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
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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.
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For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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I will heap evils on them; I will spend my arrows on them:
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[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat Bitter destruction; The teeth of animals will I send on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
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Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
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I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
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Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.
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For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.
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Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
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How should one chase a thousand, Two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, Yahweh had delivered them up?
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For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
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For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, Of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
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Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.
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Isn`t this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
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Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, The things that are to come on them shall make haste.
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For Yahweh will judge his people, Repent himself for his servants; When he sees that [their] power is gone, There is none [remaining], shut up or left at large.
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He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
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Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.
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See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; There is none who can deliver out of my hand.
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For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,
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If I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, Will recompense those who hate me.
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I will make my arrows drunk with blood, My sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.