Half-Acrostic: Yahweh Takes Vengeance against His Enemies

• 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and full of wrath .[fn]
• Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies;
  • he rages against his adversaries.
  • 3 Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power; he will certainly not allow the guilty to go unpunished.
• He marches[fn] in storm wind and in gale;
  • storm clouds are the dust of his feet.
  • 4 He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers; he makes all the rivers run dry.  
• Bashan and Carmel wither;[fn]
  • the blossom of Lebanon languishes.
  • 5 Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart.[fn]
• The earth heaves before him—
  • the world and all her inhabitants.
  • 6 His indignation—who can stand before it? Who can endure his fierce anger ?[fn]
• His wrath is poured out like fire;
  • rocks are shattered before[fn] him.
  • 7 Yahweh is good—a refuge in the day of distress; he knows those who take refuge in him.
  • 8 But with a rushing torrent he will bring Nineveh to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness.