Are your arms as strong as God’s arm?\par Do you have a voice like God’s voice\par that can sound loud like thunder?\par
Exodus 9:17 - Easy To Read Version You are still against my people. You are not letting them go free. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Since you are still exalting yourself [in haughty defiance] against My people by not letting them go, American Standard Version (1901) As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go? Common English Bible You are still abusing your power against my people, and you refuse to let them go. Catholic Public Domain Version Do you still retain my people, and are you still unwilling to release them? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Dost thou yet hold back my people: and wilt thou not let them go? |
Are your arms as strong as God’s arm?\par Do you have a voice like God’s voice\par that can sound loud like thunder?\par
God is very wise\par and his power is very great.\par No person can fight God and not be hurt.\par
But I have put you here for a reason. I have put you here so that I could show you my power. Then people all over the world will learn about me!
So, at this time tomorrow, I will cause a very bad hailstorm. There has never been a hailstorm like this in Egypt, not since Egypt became a nation.
An axe is not better than the person that cuts with it. A saw is not better than the person that saws with it. \{But Assyria thinks he is more important and powerful than God.\} And this is like a stick being more powerful and important than the person that picks it up and uses it to punish someone.
But Lord, get ready to punish those people.\par Surely they will see it, won’t they?\par Lord, show the evil people the strong love {\cf2\super [241]} \par that you have for your people.\par Surely the evil people will be ashamed.\par Surely your enemies will be burned\par in their own fire (evil).\par
Yes, you were upset at me.\par I heard your proud insults.\par So I will put my hook in your nose.\par And I will put my bit {\cf2\super [356]} in your mouth.\par Then I will turn you around\par and lead you back the way you came.’”\par
“Look at these people! They are arguing with the One who made them. Look at them argue with me! They are like pieces of clay from a broken pot. A man uses soft, wet clay to make a pot. And the clay does not ask, ‘Man, what are you doing?’ Things that are made don’t have the power to question the one who makes them. \{People are like this clay.\}
“‘So the Lord my Master says these things: Tyre, you thought you were like a god.\par
But Nebuchadnezzar became proud and stubborn. So his power was taken away from him. He was taken off his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
Herod \{accepted this praise and\} did not give the glory to God. So an angel of the Lord caused him to become sick. He was eaten by worms inside him, and he died.
Doing that would make the Lord jealous {\cf2\super [75]} ! And we don’t want to do that, do we? No, because he is much stronger than we are.