Job 33:7

It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the middle of the fire, as you have heard, and live?

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall on you?

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

for our God is a consuming fire.

It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Yahweh’s angel appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, so that tumors broke out on them.

Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border 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 struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”

But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of Yahweh’s angel.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

“I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”