¹⁸ Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

²⁴ Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

¹⁸ for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving -- to be spoken through the Lord -- by those having heard was confirmed to us,

⁶ who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

⁵ but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

⁷ And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

¹⁶ `Son of man, lo, I am taking from thee the desire of thine eyes by a stroke, and thou dost not mourn, nor weep, nor let thy tear come.

⁶ He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

⁵ The Lord on thy right hand smote kings In the day of His anger.

⁷ A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

⁸ And precious `is' the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased -- to the age.

¹⁰ Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

¹² Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

⁵ Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them: