Human anger only results in more praise for you; those who survive the wars will keep your festivals.

For rulers are not to be feared by those who do good, but by those who do evil. Would you like to be unafraid of those in authority? Then do what is good, and they will praise you,

because they are God's servants working for your own good. But if you do evil, then be afraid of them, because their power to punish is real. They are God's servants and carry out God's punishment on those who do evil.

But the earth helped the woman; it opened its mouth and swallowed the water that had come from the dragon's mouth.