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Exodus 9:16

New Century Version

But I have let you live for this reason: to show you my power so that my name will be talked about in all the earth.

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There is no nation like your people Israel. They are the only people on earth that God chose to be his own. You made your name well known. You did great and wonderful miracles for them. You went ahead of them and forced other nations and their gods out of the land. You freed your people from slavery in Egypt.

That night the angel of the Lord went out and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies.

Tell the nations about his glory; tell all peoples the miracles he does.

You did signs and miracles against the king of Egypt, and against all his officers and all his people, because you knew how proud they were. You became as famous as you are today.

But the Lord saved them for his own sake, to show his great power.

Then everyone will fear God. They will tell what God has done, and they will learn from what he has done.

People praise you for your anger against evil. Those who live through your anger are stopped from doing more evil.

I will make the Egyptians stubborn so they will chase the Israelites, but I will be honored when I defeat the king and all of his chariot drivers and chariots.

I will make the king stubborn again so he will chase after them, but I will defeat the king and his army. This will bring honor to me, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” The Israelites did just as they were told.

Now I know the Lord is greater than all gods, because he did this to those who looked down on Israel.”

By now I could have used my power and caused a terrible disease that would have destroyed you and your people from the earth.

You are still against my people and do not want to let them go.

The Lord makes everything go as he pleases. He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.

You did miracles and wonderful things in the land of Egypt. You have continued doing them in Israel and among the other nations even until today. So you have become well known.

“I will show my glory among the nations. All the nations will see my power when I punish them.

“From the east to the west I will be honored among the nations. Everywhere they will bring incense and clean offerings to me, because I will be honored among the nations,” says the Lord All-Powerful.

“The person who cheats will be cursed. He has a male animal in his flock and promises to offer it, but then he offers to the Lord an animal that has something wrong with it. I am a great king,” says the Lord All-Powerful, “and I am feared by all the nations.

But, as surely as I live and as surely as my glory fills the whole earth, I make this promise:

The Scripture says to the king of Egypt: “I made you king for this reason: to show my power in you so that my name will be talked about in all the earth.”

It is the same way with God. He wanted to show his anger and to let people see his power. But he patiently stayed with those people he was angry with—people who were made ready to be destroyed.

The Lord did this so all people would know he has great power and so you would always respect the Lord your God.’ ”

A person might have to suffer even when it is unfair, but if he thinks of God and can stand the pain, God is pleased.

Also, he is “a stone that causes people to stumble, a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they do not obey what God says, which is what God planned to happen to them.

Some people have secretly entered your group. Long ago the prophets wrote about these people who will be judged guilty. They are against God and have changed the grace of our God into a reason for sexual sin. They also refuse to accept Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

How terrible it will be for us! Who can save us from these powerful gods? They are the ones who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of disasters in the desert.




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