## Why should I pardon these people ##

Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that he has no reason to pardon these people. AT: "Because of the things that they do, I cannot pardon these people." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## these people ##

the people of Jerusalem

## Your sons ##

Yahweh is speaking to Jerusalem as though she were a woman who had children. AT: "The people of Jerusalem." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])

## I fed them fully ##

"I gave them everything they needed."

## and took on the marks of a house of prostitution ##

"and went in large groups to the houses of prostitutes"

## in heat ##

"that were ready to have sex" or "that were sexually aroused"

## Each man neighed to his neighbor's wife ##

Male horses neigh loudly to female horses when they want to have sex with them. AT: "Each man was trying to have sex with his neighbor's wife." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## So should I not punish them ##

Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that the things that they are doing are so bad that he will no have mercy and stop himself from punishing them. AT: "Because they do these things, I will punish them."

## This is Yahweh’s declaration ##

See how you translated this in [Jeremiah 1:7](../01/07.md).

## Should my heart not avenge itself on a nation that is like this? ##

AT: "I will certainly get revenge for myself against a nation that is like this." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])