¹⁴ Then the angel who was speaking to me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I am very jealous^(A) for Jerusalem and Zion, ¹⁵ and I am very angry with the nations that feel secure.^(B) I was only a little angry,^(C) but they went too far with the punishment.’^(D)

²⁰ Keep my Sabbaths^(A) holy, that they may be a sign^(B) between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.^(C)”

²¹ “‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws,^(D) of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger^(E) against them in the wilderness.^{(F) 22} But I withheld^(G) my hand, and for the sake of my name^(H) I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

¹³ “‘Yet the people of Israel rebelled^(A) against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my decrees but rejected my laws^(B)—by which the person who obeys them will live—and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths.^(C) So I said I would pour out my wrath^(D) on them and destroy^(E) them in the wilderness.^{(F) 14} But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned^(G) in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.^(H)

⁴ For they have forsaken^(A) me and made this a place of foreign gods^(B); they have burned incense^(C) in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^(D)