² But Pharaoh said, ^(A)“Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, ^(B)I will not let Israel go.”

¹⁹ But I know that the king of Egypt ^(A)will not let you go unless compelled ^(B)by a mighty hand.^[a]

³⁵ Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, ^(A)that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

^8 (A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those ^(B)who do not know God and on those who ^(C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

²⁸ And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ^(A)God gave them up to ^(B)a debased mind to do ^(C)what ought not to be done.

³ And they will do these things ^(A)because they have not known the Father, nor me.

¹⁶ “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ^(A)we will not listen to you. ^17 (B)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to ^(C)the queen of heaven ^(D)and pour out drink offerings to her, ^(E)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

The Fool Says, There Is No God

To the choirmaster. Of David.