Exodus 15:7
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You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
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Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.
There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.