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⁶ Who can stand before his indignation?
   Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
   and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.
⁷ The Lord is good,
   a stronghold on a day of trouble;
he protects those who take refuge in him,
⁸   even in a rushing flood.
He will make a full end of his adversaries,^*
   and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
⁹ Why do you plot against the Lord?
   He will make an end;
   no adversary will rise up twice.
¹⁰ Like thorns they are entangled,
   like drunkards they are drunk;
   they are consumed like dry straw.
¹¹ From you one has gone out
   who plots evil against the Lord,
   one who counsels wickedness.

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¹² Thus says the Lord,
‘Though they are at full strength and many,^*
   they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
   I will afflict you no more.
¹³ And now I will break off his yoke from you
   and snap the bonds that bind you.’