“If He comes by and imprisons, or convenes a court, who can prevent Him?
Its measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
If He tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; one He imprisons cannot be released.
“But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
“And who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
For He inflicts pain, but He also binds up; He injures, yet His hands also heal.
He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and come out whole?
I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, for You saw my affliction. You knew the troubles of my soul.
For Adonai-Tzva’ot has purposed, so who will annul it? Since His hand is stretched out, who will turn it back?
First it was to Zion: “Behold, here they are!” And to Jerusalem: “I will give a herald of good news.”
How can one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them and Adonai had handed them over?
To the angel of Messiah’s community in Philadelphia write: “Thus says the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens: