Then he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.

Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This [is] My name forever, and this [is] My memorial to all generations.'

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,

The nations have sunk down in the pit [which] they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.

For strangers have risen up against me, And oppressors have sought after my life; They have not set God before them. Selah

Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:

" [Are] you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me, O children of Israel?" says the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, The Philistines from Caphtor, And the Syrians from Kir?

For he is not a Jew who [is one] outwardly, nor [is] circumcision that which [is] outward in the flesh;

but [he is] a Jew who [is one] inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise [is] not from men but from God.

But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel who [are] of Israel,

If he does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready.

He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

Let death seize them; Let them go down alive into hell, For wickedness [is] in their dwellings [and] among them.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; The women come [and] set them on fire. For it [is] a people of no understanding; Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor.

"Again, when a wicked [man] turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive.

"Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.