For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.
My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.
Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.
He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
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