because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

他伸手攻击神，以骄傲攻击全能者，

因他伸手攻击上帝，逞强对抗全能者，

因他伸手攻击神，逞强对抗全能者，

因为他挥拳对抗上帝，藐视全能者，

因为他向神挥拳，向全能者逞强，

他伸手攻擊神，以驕傲攻擊全能者，

因他伸手攻擊上帝，逞強對抗全能者，

因他伸手攻擊神，逞強對抗全能者，

因為他揮拳對抗上帝，藐視全能者，

因為他向神揮拳，向全能者逞強，

因為他伸手攻擊上帝，自誇強大而抗拒全能者，

因其舉手以攻上帝、狂傲以敵全能者、

惡人自恃其勇、狂悖成性、侮慢全能之上帝。

因其舉手抗拒天主、妄恃己力、侮慢全能之主、

They shake their fists at God. They brag about themselves and oppose the Mighty One.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

For they shake their fists at God, defying the Almighty.

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.

Because he has reached out with his hand against God, And is arrogant toward the Almighty.

For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty,

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

For he has stretched out his hand against God and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?

Why do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh did? When Israel’s god dealt harshly with them, did they not send the Israelites out so they could go on their way?

“ Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!”

Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.

he tells them what they have done— that they have sinned arrogantly.

Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.

“ You have spoken arrogantly against me,” says the Lord.“ Yet you ask,‘ What have we said against you?’

Pharaoh said,“ Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.”Then they said,“ The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

They say,“ How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?”

Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted; propose your plan, but it will not stand, for God is with us.

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.

Do you have an arm like God’s, and can your voice thunder like his?Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at all who are proud and bring them low,

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them.

You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.

the Philistines were afraid.“ A god has come into the camp,” they said.“ Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before.We’re doomed! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.Be strong, Philistines! Be men, or you will be subject to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men, and fight!”

Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord— with the first of them and with the last— I am he.”The islands have seen it and fear; the ends of the earth tremble. They approach and come forward;they help each other and say to their companions,“ Be strong!”The metalworker encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer spurs on the one who strikes the anvil. One says of the welding,“ It is good.” The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.

“‘ If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,

Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

“ Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.“ I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.

When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say,“ I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.For he says:“‘ By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding. I removed the boundaries of nations, I plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their kings.As one reaches into a nest, so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations; as people gather abandoned eggs, so I gathered all the countries; not one flapped a wing, or opened its mouth to chirp.’”