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25 Because they stretched out their hands against God
    and bid defiance to the Almighty,[a](A)

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  1. 15.25 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

13 You have spoken harsh words against me, says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have we spoken against you?”(A)

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23 You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.(A)

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They set their mouths against heaven,
    and their tongues range over the earth.

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“See the one who would not take
    refuge in God
but trusted in abundant riches
    and sought refuge in wealth!”[a](A)

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  1. 52.7 Syr Tg: Heb in his destruction

then he declares to them their work
    and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.(A)

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He is wise in heart and mighty in strength;
    who has resisted him and succeeded?(A)

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Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had made fools of them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?(A)

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23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)

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James Killed and Peter Imprisoned

12 About that time King Herod laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the church.

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He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

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Who has performed and done this,
    calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am first
    and will be with the last.(A)
The coastlands have seen and are afraid;
    the ends of the earth tremble;
    they have drawn near and come.(B)
Each one helps the other,
    saying to one another, “Take courage!”(C)
The artisan encourages the goldsmith,
    and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil,
saying of the soldering, “It is good,”
    and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.(D)

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    I have no wrath.
If it gives me thorns and briers,
    I will march to battle against it.
    I will burn it up.(A)

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12 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he[a] will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.(A) 13 For he says:

“By the strength of my hand I have done it,
    and by my wisdom, for I have understanding;
I have removed the boundaries of peoples
    and have plundered their treasures;
    like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.(B)
14 My hand has found, like a nest,
    the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened its mouth or chirped.”(C)

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  1. 10.12 Gk: Heb I

Take notice,[a] you peoples, and be dismayed;
    listen, all you far countries;
gird yourselves and be dismayed![b]
10 Take counsel together, but it shall be brought to naught;
    speak a word, but it will not stand,
    for God is with us.”(A)

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  1. 8.9 Gk: Heb Be shattered
  2. 8.9 Q mss: MT repeats gird yourselves and be dismayed!

11 And they say, “How can God know?
    Is there knowledge in the Most High?”(A)

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Have you an arm like God,
    and can you thunder with a voice like his?(A)

10 “Deck yourself with majesty and dignity;
    clothe yourself with glory and splendor.(B)
11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
    and look on all who are proud and humble them.(C)

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the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “Gods have[a] come into the camp.” They also said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before. Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness. Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, in order not to become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”(A)

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  1. 4.7 Or A god has

23 “If in spite of these punishments you have not turned back to me but continue hostile to me,(A)

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17 You are still exalting yourself against my people by not letting them go.

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But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”(A) Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has revealed himself to us; let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the Lord our God, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or sword.”(B)

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