_A God jealous and avenging is Jehovah; Jehovah is avenger and lord of wrath; Vengeful is Jehovah towards His enemies, And implacable He to His foes._
_Jehovah is long-suffering and great in might,[239] Yet He will not absolve. Jehovah! His way is in storm and in hurricane, And clouds are the dust of His feet.[240] He curbeth the sea, and drieth it up; All the streams hath He parched. Withered[241] be Bashan and Carmel; The bloom of Lebānon is withered. Mountains have quaked before Him, And the hills have rolled down. Earth heaved at His presence, The world and all its inhabitants. Before His rage who may stand, Or who abide in the glow of His anger? His wrath pours forth like fire, And rocks are rent before Him._
_Good is Jehovah to them that wait upon Him in the day of trouble,[242] And He knoweth them that trust Him. With an overwhelming flood He makes an end of His rebels, And His foes He comes down on[243] with darkness._
_What think ye of Jehovah? He is one that makes utter destruction; Not twice need trouble arise. For though they be like plaited thorns, And sodden as ...,[244] They shall be consumed like dry stubble._
_Came there not[245] out of thee one to plan evil against Jehovah, A counsellor of mischief?[246]_
_Thus saith Jehovah, ... many waters,[247] yet shall they be cut off and pass away, and I will so humble thee that I need humble thee[248] no more;[249] and Jehovah hath ordered concerning thee, that no more of thy seed be sown: from the house of thy God, I will cut off graven and molten image. I will make thy sepulchre_ ...[250]
Disentangled from the above verses are three which plainly refer not to Assyria but to Judah. How they came to be woven among the others we cannot tell. Some of them appear applicable to the days of Josiah after the great Reform.
_And now will I break his yoke from upon thee, And burst thy bonds asunder. Lo, upon the mountains the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, That publisheth peace! Keep thy feasts, O Judah, Fulfil thy vows: For no more shall the wicked attempt to pass through thee; Cut off is the whole of him.[251] For Jehovah hath turned the pride of Jacob, Like to the pride of Isrāel:[252] For the plunderers plundered them, And destroyed their vine branches._