Job 40:9

Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’ ”

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

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

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.

“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army. When they stood, they let down their wings.

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Pharaoh said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Let it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

and he said, “Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, king Jehoshaphat. Yahweh says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed because of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.

As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

She will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father:

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

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

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

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

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and bronze?

When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in Yahweh’s day.

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I will deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!