¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(A)
    How often does calamity^(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(C)

⁴⁹ He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(A)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.^(B)
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(C)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(D)

⁷ We are consumed by your anger
    and terrified by your indignation.

¹⁹ By the wrath^(A) of the Lord Almighty
    the land will be scorched^(B)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;^(C)
    they will not spare one another.^(D)

¹⁹ “‘They will throw their silver into the streets,^(A)
    and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean.
Their silver and gold
    will not be able to deliver them
    in the day of the Lord’s wrath.^(B)
It will not satisfy^(C) their hunger
    or fill their stomachs,
    for it has caused them to stumble^(D) into sin.^(E)