And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth is Mine.

For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Only Jehovah had a delight in your fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, you above all people, as it is today.

And Jehovah has taken you today to be His peculiar people, as He has promised you, and to keep all His commandments,

For Jehovah's portion is His people. Jacob is the lot of His inheritance.

He shows His Word to Jacob, His Precepts and His judgments to Israel.

We are from forever; You never ruled over them; Your name was never called on them.

All

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

For, behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Jehovah. And they shall come, and they shall each one set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its wall all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name; for they have eaten up Jacob and have devoured him, and have destroyed him, and have made his dwelling desolate.

because of the many harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.

And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, even on them shall be no rain.

And He has made all nations of men of one blood to dwell on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,

Therefore

Fully destroy old men, young men and virgins, and little children and women. But do not come near any man on whom is the mark. And begin at My sanctuary. And they began at the old men who were before the house.

Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Jehovah.

And He has confirmed His Words which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil. For under all the heavens it has not been done as it has been done to Jerusalem.

Then He began to upbraid the cities in which most of His mighty works were done, because they did not repent.

And that servant who knew his lord's will and did not prepare, nor did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who has worked out evil; of the Jew first, and also of the Greek.

For the time has come for the judgment to begin from the house of God. And if it first begins from us, what will be the end of those disobeying the gospel of God?

Punish

Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will punish all the circumcised with the uncircumcised;

So says Jehovah of Hosts, Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

What will you say when he comes to punish you? For you have taught them to be rulers over you for a head. Do not pangs seize you, like a woman in travail?

General references

But I must die in this land; I must not go over Jordan. But you shall go over and possess that good land.

then I will visit their wickedness with the rod, and their sin with stripes.

So says the Lord Jehovah: An evil: Behold, an only evil has come!

But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the Judgment than for you.