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You are awesome! Yes, you!
Who can withstand your intense anger?[a]
From heaven you announced what their punishment would be.[b]
The earth[c] was afraid and silent
when God arose to execute judgment,
and to deliver all the oppressed of the earth. (Selah)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 76:7 tc Heb “and who can stand before you from the time of your anger?” The Hebrew expression מֵאָז (meʾaz, “from the time of”) is better emended to מֵאֹז (meʾoz, “from [i.e., “because of”] the strength of your anger”; see Ps 90:11).
  2. Psalm 76:8 tn Heb “a [legal] decision,” or “sentence.”
  3. Psalm 76:8 tn “The earth” stands here by metonymy for its inhabitants.

It is you alone who are to be feared.(A)
    Who can stand(B) before you when you are angry?(C)
From heaven you pronounced judgment,
    and the land feared(D) and was quiet—
when you, God, rose up to judge,(E)
    to save all the afflicted(F) of the land.

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