He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.
Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!
So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.’”
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the Lord.
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
“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.
I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the Lord; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.”
‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city. I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.”
And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.
There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
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