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14 So he will do to me whatever he has planned.
    He controls my destiny.

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For God chose to save us through our Lord Jesus Christ, not to pour out his anger on us.

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and to keep you from being shaken by the troubles you were going through. But you know that we are destined for such troubles.

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27 O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles?
    O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?
28 Have you never heard?
    Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
    No one can measure the depths of his understanding.

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19 Your road led through the sea,
    your pathway through the mighty waters—
    a pathway no one knew was there!

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And,

“He is the stone that makes people stumble,
    the rock that makes them fall.”[a]

They stumble because they do not obey God’s word, and so they meet the fate that was planned for them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:8 Isa 8:14.

33 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!

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Israel’s Guilt and Punishment

Fear the Lord if you are wise!
    His voice calls to everyone in Jerusalem:
“The armies of destruction are coming;
    the Lord is sending them.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 6:9 Hebrew “Listen to the rod. / Who appointed it?”

Dark clouds surround him.
    Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

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I, too, have been assigned months of futility,
    long and weary nights of misery.

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