That would be far from you to do in this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that would be far from you: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
You, even you, are LORD alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and you preserve them all; and the host of heaven worships you.
Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I did not say to the children of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than a hundred twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Whom God has set forth to satisfy justice through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Know therefore that the LORD your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
And there was trembling in the army, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the plunderers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.