⁷ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers!^(A) Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?^(B)

⁹ For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath^(A) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.^(B)

¹⁶ They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us^(A) and hide us^[a] from the face of him who sits on the throne^(B) and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day^(C) of their^[b] wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”^(D)