²⁴ My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.^(A)

¹² I will strike them down with a plague^(A) and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation^(B) greater and stronger than they.”^(C)

¹⁴ Let me alone,^(A) so that I may destroy them and blot out^(B) their name from under heaven.^(C) And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”

¹⁹ I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you.^(A) But again the Lord listened to me.^(B)