But to show you my power I have let you live so that my fame might spread over the whole world.

People of Israel, no god is like your God, riding in splendor across the sky, riding through the clouds to come to your aid.

to him who rides in the sky, the ancient sky. Listen to him shout with a mighty roar.

Let them all praise the name of the LORD! His name is greater than all others; his glory is above earth and heaven.

But the LORD Almighty shows his greatness by doing what is right, and he reveals his holiness by judging his people.

LORD, there is no one like you; you are mighty, and your name is great and powerful.

Now, LORD, hear us and look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God.

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came."

An angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

One day when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords and then escaped to the land of Ararat. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon, succeeded him as emperor.

Many nations have gathered to attack you. They say, "Jerusalem must be destroyed! We will see this city in ruins!"

What are you plotting against the LORD? He will destroy you. No one opposes him more than once.

From you, Nineveh, there came someone full of wicked schemes, who plotted against the LORD.

Anyone who strikes you strikes what is most precious to me." So the LORD Almighty sent me with this message for the nations that had plundered his people:

Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he has fought in times past.

When that day comes, fresh water will flow from Jerusalem, half of it to the Dead Sea and the other half to the Mediterranean. It will flow all year long, in the dry season as well as the wet.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

destroy them in your anger; destroy them completely. Then everyone will know that God rules in Israel, that his rule extends over all the earth.

Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.

So now, just as straw and dry grass shrivel and burn in the fire, your roots will rot and your blossoms will dry up and blow away, because you have rejected what the LORD Almighty, Israel's holy God, has taught us.

"They will be like bits of straw, and a fire will burn them up! They will not even be able to save themselves--- the flames will be too hot for them, not a cozy fire to warm themselves by.

Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up!

The LORD Almighty says, "The day is coming when all proud and evil people will burn like straw. On that day they will burn up, and there will be nothing left of them.

He has his winnowing shovel with him to thresh out all the grain. He will gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out."