For they shake their fists at God, defying 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、

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

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 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,

For God is so wise and so mighty. Who has ever challenged him successfully?

Don’t be stubborn and rebellious as Pharaoh and the Egyptians were. By the time God was finished with them, they were eager to let Israel go.

“ Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness.”

They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut throughout the earth.

he shows them the reason. He shows them their sins of pride.

For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone— gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!

“ You have said terrible things about me,” says the Lord.“ But you say,‘ What do you mean? What have we said against you?’

“ Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh.“ And who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”But Aaron and Moses persisted.“ The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they declared.“ So let us take a three day journey into the wilderness so we can offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. If we don’t, he will kill us with a plague or with the sword.”

“ What does God know?” they ask.“ Does the Most High even know what’s happening?”

“ Huddle together, you nations, and be terrified. Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, but you will be crushed! Yes, prepare for battle, but you will be crushed!Call your councils of war, but they will be worthless. Develop your strategies, but they will not succeed. For God is with us!”

My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up—

Are you as strong as God? Can you thunder with a voice like his?All right, put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty.Give vent to your anger. Let it overflow against the proud.

About that time King Herod Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the church.

But you still lord it over my people and refuse to let them go.

they panicked.“ The gods have come into their camp!” they cried.“ This is a disaster! We have never had to face anything like this before!Help! Who can save us from these mighty gods of Israel? They are the same gods who destroyed the Egyptians with plagues when Israel was in the wilderness.Fight as never before, Philistines! If you don’t, we will become the Hebrews’ slaves just as they have been ours! Stand up like men and fight!”

Who has done such mighty deeds, summoning each new generation from the beginning of time? It is I, the Lord, the First and the Last. I alone am he.”The lands beyond the sea watch in fear. Remote lands tremble and mobilize for war.The idol makers encourage one another, saying to each other,“ Be strong!”The carver encourages the goldsmith, and the molder helps at the anvil.“ Good,” they say.“ It’s coming along fine.” Carefully they join the parts together, then fasten the thing in place so it won’t fall over.

“ And if you fail to learn the lesson and continue your hostility toward me,

Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.

“ Who are you, lord?” Saul asked. And the voice replied,“ I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting!

After the Lord has used the king of Assyria to accomplish his purposes on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, he will turn against the king of Assyria and punish him— for he is proud and arrogant.He boasts,“ By my own powerful arm I have done this. With my own shrewd wisdom I planned it. I have broken down the defenses of nations and carried off their treasures. I have knocked down their kings like a bull.I have robbed their nests of riches and gathered up kingdoms as a farmer gathers eggs. No one can even flap a wing against me or utter a peep of protest.”