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But you indeed are awesome!
    Who can stand before you
    when your anger is roused?(A)

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Who can stand before his indignation?
    Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
    and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.(A)

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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.(A)

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Footnotes

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

a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
    great and awesome[a] above all who are around him?(A)

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  1. 89.7 Gk Syr: Heb greatly awesome

Lord, who will not fear
    and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
    All nations will come
    and worship before you,
for your judgments have been revealed.”(A)

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He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”(A)

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16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,(A) 17 for the great day of their[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”(B)

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  1. 6.17 Other ancient authorities read his

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

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28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[a]

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  1. 10.28 Gk Gehenna

Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?
    For that is your due;
among all the wise ones of the nations
    and in all their kingdoms
    there is no one like you.(A)
They are both stupid and foolish;
    the instruction given by idols
    is no better than wood![a](B)
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish
    and gold from Uphaz.
They are the work of the artisan and of the hands of the goldsmith;
    their clothing is blue and purple;
    they are all the product of skilled workers.(C)
10 But the Lord is the true God;
    he is the living God and the everlasting King.
At his wrath the earth quakes,
    and the nations cannot endure his indignation.[b](D)

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  1. 10.8 Q ms Gk lack 10.6–8
  2. 10.10 Q ms Gk lack 10.10

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
    Lord, who could stand?(A)

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11 Who considers the power of your anger?
    Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.(A)

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15 O Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this.”(A)

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25 For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
    he is to be revered above all gods.(A)

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