Like a lion coming from its hiding place, a destroyer of nations has set out. He is coming to destroy Judah. The cities of Judah will be left in ruins, and no one will live in them.

"Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan up to the green pasture land, I, the LORD, will come and make the Babylonians run away suddenly from their city. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?

When Babylon falls, there will be such a noise that the entire earth will shake, and the cries of alarm will be heard by the other nations."

The rulers cry out in grief; their glory is gone! Listen to the roaring of the lions; their forest home along the Jordan is destroyed!

The LORD said, "Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you can't even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the jungle by the Jordan?

(SEE 3:14)

In the first month of one year, the time when the Jordan River overflowed its banks, they crossed the river, scattering the people who lived in the valleys both east and west of the river.

" LORD, who among the gods is like you? Who is like you, wonderful in holiness? Who can work miracles and mighty acts like yours?

No one in heaven is like you, LORD; none of the heavenly beings is your equal.

LORD God Almighty, none is as mighty as you; in all things you are faithful, O LORD.

There is no one like the LORD our God. He lives in the heights above,

but he bends down to see the heavens and the earth.

To whom can the holy God be compared? Is there anyone else like him?

Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go?

I am innocent, but I no longer care. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us.

How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is.

I want to know what he would say and how he would answer me.

I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all.

(SEE 40:1)

(SEE 40:3)

Then out of the storm the LORD spoke to Job once again.

Are you trying to prove that I am unjust--- to put me in the wrong and yourself in the right?

You ask how I dare question your wisdom when I am so very ignorant. I talked about things I did not understand, about marvels too great for me to know.

In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

Don't put me, your servant, on trial; no one is innocent in your sight.

Their ruler will come from their own nation, their prince from their own people. He will approach me when I invite him, for who would dare come uninvited? They will be my people, and I will be their God. I, the LORD, have spoken."

When he is aroused, he is fierce; no one would dare to stand before him.

But you, LORD, are feared by all. No one can stand in your presence when you are angry.

When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.

The terrible day of their anger is here, and who can stand up against it?"