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10 At the time of your coming
    you will make them a fiery furnace.
Then the Lord in his anger will consume them,
    devour them with fire.

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Wealth is useless on a day of wrath,[a](A)
    but justice saves from death.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:4 Cf. note on 10:2. A day of wrath is an unforeseen disaster (even death). Only one’s relationship to God, which makes one righteous, is of any help on such a day.

17 “Woe to the nations that rise against my people!
    the Lord Almighty will requite them;
    in the day of judgment he will punish them:
He will send fire and worms into their flesh,(A)
    and they will weep and suffer forever.”

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