²⁷ Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying^(A) foreign women?”

⁸ At Horeb you aroused the Lord’s wrath^(A) so that he was angry enough to destroy you.^(B)

¹⁴ Let me alone,^(A) so that I may destroy them and blot out^(B) their name from under heaven.^(C) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”