05:032:021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move
them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them
to anger with a foolish nation.
05:032:022 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on
fire the foundations of the mountains.
05:032:023 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows
upon them.
05:032:024 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts
upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
05:032:025 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the
young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
05:032:026 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:
05:032:027 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should
say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
05:032:028 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
05:032:029 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end!
05:032:030 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to
flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
05:032:031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies
themselves being judges.
05:032:032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
05:032:033 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of
asps.
05:032:034 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures?
05:032:035 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall
slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the
things that shall come upon them make haste.
05:032:036 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for
his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none
shut up, or left.
05:032:037 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom
they trusted,
05:032:038 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the
wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be
your protection.
05:032:039 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any
that can deliver out of my hand.
05:032:040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
05:032:041 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them
that hate me.
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