He sends disaster and ruin to those who do wrong.

The LORD will fight as he did at Mount Perazim and in the valley of Gibeon, in order to do what he intends to do---strange as his actions may seem. He will complete his work, his mysterious work.

Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already---you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there.

I create both light and darkness; I bring both blessing and disaster. I, the LORD, do all these things.

I am the one who made the earth and created human beings to live there. By my power I stretched out the heavens; I control the sun, the moon, and the stars.

How long will you hesitate, faithless people? I have created something new and different, as different as a woman protecting a man."

So they went down alive to the world of the dead, with their possessions. The earth closed over them, and they vanished.

May my enemies die before their time; may they go down alive into the world of the dead! Evil is in their homes and in their hearts.