For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.
Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
But he stands alone, and who can dissuade him? What he desires, that he does.
Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Your way was through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, yet your footprints were unseen.
Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
The voice of the Lord cries to the city (and he shall save those who fear his name): Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!
O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
so that no one would be shaken by these persecutions. Indeed, you yourselves know that this is what we are destined for.
For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
and “A stone that makes them stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.