For thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God: in thee Jehovah thy God chose to be to him a people of property from all the peoples which are upon the face of the earth.

Only Jehovah delighted in thy fathers to love them, and he will choose in their seed after them in you above all peoples, as this day.

And Jehovah said thee this day to be to him for a people of property, as he spake to thee, and to watch all his commands,

For Jehovah the portion of his people; Jacob the cord of his inheritance.

Announcing his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel.

We were from of old: thou didst not rule with them; thy name was not called upon them.

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These the families of Noah after their generations, in their nations and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

For behold me calling to all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Jehovah; and they came, and gave a man his throne at the opening of the gates of Jerusalem, and upon all her walls round about and upon all the cities of Judah.

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations which knew thee not, and upon the families that called not upon thy name: for they ate up Jacob and consumed him, and they will finish him, and they made desolate his dwelling.

From the multitude of the fornications of the fair harlot, the beauty of the mistress of sorceries, selling the nations by her fornication, and families by her sorceries

And it was who will not come up of the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship to the king, Jehovah of armies, and upon them shall not be rain.

And he made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having limited the times before arranged, and the bounds of their habitation;

Therefore

The old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little ones, and women, ye shall slay to destruction: and every man which upon him the mark, ye shall not touch; and ye shall begin from my holy place. And they will begin upon the old men which are before the house

As I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so will I contend with you, says the Lord Jehovah.

And he will set up his words which he spake against us, and against our judges who judged us to bring against us a great evil: which was not done under all the heavens according to what was done in Jerusalem.

Then began he to blame the cities in which were his greatest powers, because they repented not.

And that servant having known his lord's will, and not prepared, neither having done his will, shall be skinned with many.

Affliction and distress, upon every soul of man working evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek;

For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God?

Punish

Behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I reviewed over all the circumcised with the uncircumcised;

For this, thus said Jehovah of armies, Behold me reviewing over them: their young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

What wilt thou say when he shall review upon thee? and thou didst teach them the chiefs for head over thee: shall not pains lay hold of thee as a woman bringing forth?

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For I die in this land, not to pass over Jordan: and ye are passing over and shall possess this good land.

And I reviewed their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: An evil, one evil, behold, coming

But for Tyre and Sidon shall it be more supportable in judgment, than for you.