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The Lord is slow to anger but great in power,
    and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.

His way is in whirlwind and storm,
    and the clouds are the dust of his feet.(A)

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Great is our Lord and abundant in power;
    his understanding is beyond measure.(A)

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The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,

“The Lord, the Lord,
a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger,
and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,(A)
keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[a]
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generation.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 34.7 Or for thousands

    you set the beams of your[a] chambers on the waters;
you make the clouds your[b] chariot;
    you ride on the wings of the wind;(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 104.3 Heb his
  2. 104.3 Heb his

17 they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.(A)

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The Lord is gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.(A)

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The Lord is merciful and gracious,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.(A)

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Hearing and Doing the Word

19 You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,(A)

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14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
    and his arrow go forth like lightning;
the Lord God will sound the trumpet
    and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.(A)

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15 For the Lord will come in fire
    and his chariots in a whirlwind,[a]
to vent his anger in fury
    and his rebuke in flames of fire.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 66.15 Q ms: MT like a whirlwind

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him;
    righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.(A)
Fire goes before him
    and consumes his adversaries on every side.(B)
His lightnings light up the world;
    the earth sees and trembles.
The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
    before the Lord of all the earth.(C)

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

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Elijah Meets God at Horeb

11 He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake,(A) 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. 13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”(B)

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