Perhaps this was why he departed for a while, that you might receive him forever,
But as for you, you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many lives.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; with the remainder of wrath You will gird Yourself.
So the inhabitants of this coastland shall say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And how shall we escape?’ ”
to do what Your hand and Your counsel had foreordained to be done.