³² Although I had him spread terror in the land of the living, Pharaoh^(A) and all his hordes will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword, declares the Sovereign Lord.”^(B)

²⁷ But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,^[a](A) who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields^[b] resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,^(A) hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.^{(B) 16} They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us^(C) and hide us^[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne^(D) and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day^(E) of their^[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”^(F)

³¹ It is a dreadful thing^(A) to fall into the hands^(B) of the living God.^(C)

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¹¹ Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord,^(A) we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.^(B)