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10 No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up.
    Who can stand before it?[a](A)

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  1. 41.10 Heb me

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

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22 Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?(A)

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God Replies to Jeremiah

If you have raced with runners and they have wearied you,
    how will you compete with horses?
And if you trust in a safe land,
    how will you fare in the thickets of the Jordan?(A)

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11 Serve the Lord with fear;
with trembling(A) 12     kiss his feet,[a]
or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way,
    for his wrath is quickly kindled.

Happy are all who take refuge in him.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.12 Cn: Meaning of Heb of 2.11b and 12a is uncertain

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

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Let those curse it who curse the Sea,[a]
    those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.(A)

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  1. 3.8 Cn: Heb day

He crouched; he lay down like a lion
    and like a lioness; who will rouse him up?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
    and cursed is everyone who curses you.”(A)

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Judah is a lion’s whelp;
    from the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He crouches down, he stretches out like a lion,
    like a lioness—who dares rouse him up?(A)

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17 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O mortal? Is it not bad enough that the house of Judah commits the abominations done here? Must they fill the land with violence and provoke my anger still further? See, they are putting the branch to their nose!(A) 18 Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”(B)

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