In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.’
But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
“There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.
Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time. For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried. From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord, a worthless counselor. Thus says the Lord, “Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
There is none like you, O Lord; you are great, and your name is great in might.
And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
“‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels. He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah
But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
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