¹⁶ But I have kept you in power for a reason, to show you My greater power and to see that My name and reputation spread through all the earth.^{[a] 17} But you still try to dominate My people and refuse to release them from the land. ¹⁸ This time tomorrow, I will unleash an enormous hailstorm upon you—a storm like no other that has ever occurred in Egypt since its beginning until now.