When He gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? It might be against a nation or mankind altogether,

had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, our hand is high; and Jehovah has not done all this.

And watch: if it goes up the way to its own territory, to Beth Shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that has struck us; it has happened to us by chance.

For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we have been terrified.

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I, Jehovah, do all these things.

From the mouth of the Most High does not come forth both evil and good.

If a shofar is blown in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is calamity in a city, will not even Jehovah have done it?

They have spoken words, swearing vanity in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

watching carefully that no one fall short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and through this many become defiled;