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28 ‘There are winds created for vengeance,
    and in their anger they can dislodge mountains;[a]
on the day of reckoning they will pour out their strength
    and calm the anger of their Maker.
29 Fire and hail and famine and pestilence,
    all these have been created for vengeance;
30 the fangs of wild animals and scorpions and vipers,
    and the sword that punishes the ungodly with destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 39:28 Heb Syr: Gk can scourge mightily

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