¹⁴ or this time I will send the full force of my plagues against you and against your officials and your people, so you may know^(A) that there is no one like^(B) me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people^(C) with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. ¹⁶ But I have raised you up^[a] for this very purpose,^(D) that I might show you my power^(E) and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

²⁴ All the trees of the forest^(A) will know that I the Lord bring down^(B) the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish.^(C)

“‘I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.^(D)’”