I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; ¹  I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me! ² 

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, ¹  as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

Be careful ¹  not to say, “My own ability and skill ²  have gotten me this wealth.”

I will increase their ¹  disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

“Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, ¹  “Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

I will personally hold responsible ¹  anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet ²  speaks in my name.

but I show covenant faithfulness ¹  to the thousands ²  who choose ³  me and keep my commandments.

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief ¹  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

So I turned and went down the mountain while it ¹  was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected ¹  her.

At that time ¹  my anger will erupt against them ²  and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome ³  them ⁴  so that they ⁵  will say at that time, ‘Have not these disasters ⁶  overcome us ⁷  because our ⁸  God is not among us ⁹ ?’

So I made an ark of acacia ¹  wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in ¹  the land you are about to enter and possess.

If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey ¹  all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.

“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, ¹  “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist ²  my power.

I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command.

“But if any prophet presumes to speak anything in my name that I have not authorized ¹  him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.

for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness. ¹  Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the Lord; you will be even more rebellious after my death! ²