For He fulfills the decree against me, and many such things are with Him.
“Yet these things You have hid in Your heart, for I know that this is with You.
He is unchangeable, and who can change Him? Whatever His soul desires, He does.
That is why I am terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
so I have inherited months of futility, and nights of distress have been appointed to me.
The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.
Clouds and darkness are all around Him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
The voice of Adonai calls to the city— it is wisdom to fear Your Name— “Pay attention to the rod and to the One who appointed it.”
O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!
so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know we are destined for this.
For God did not destine us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
and “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they are disobeying the word—to this they were also appointed.