Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go?

But there is no one to step between us--- no one to judge both God and me.

Stop punishing me, God! Keep your terrors away!

stop punishing me, and don't crush me with terror.

I am no longer angry with the vineyard. If there were thorns and briers to fight against, I would burn them up completely.

The LORD punished his people by sending them into exile. He took them away with a cruel wind from the east.

"As surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I warn you that in my anger I will rule over you with a strong hand, with all my power.

I will bring you into the 'Desert of the Nations,' and there I will condemn you to your face.

You answered me when I called to you; with your strength you strengthened me.

But his answer was: "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me.

I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.