I mourn and wear clothes made of sackcloth, and I sit here in the dust defeated.

I tell them to stop their boasting."

He will break the power of the wicked, but the power of the righteous will be increased.

I will love him and be loyal to him; I will make him always victorious.

Here I will make one of David's descendants a great king; here I will preserve the rule of my chosen king.

Moab's might has been crushed; its power has been destroyed. I, the LORD, have spoken."

He has provided for us a mighty Savior, a descendant of his servant David.

Why have you refused to help us? Why do you keep your hands behind you?

My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.

LORD, will you be angry with us forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

LORD, will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger burn like fire?

Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction.

So he made us feel the force of his anger and suffer the violence of war. Like fire his anger burned throughout Israel, but we never knew what was happening; we learned nothing at all from it.

Keep your covenant with me, your LORD, and dedicate yourselves to me, you people of Judah and Jerusalem. If you don't, my anger will burn like fire because of the evil things you have done. It will burn, and there will be no one to put it out."

And so I, the Sovereign LORD, will pour out my fierce anger on this Temple. I will pour it out on people and animals alike, and even on the trees and the crops. My anger will be like a fire that no one can put out.

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 and gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn the chaff in a fire that never goes out."