Who can stand before his indignation? since God can do all this, who among the Assyrians, who among the Ninevites, what kingdom or monarchy, is mighty enough to resist or defeat the counsel and power of this God, who will ere long rebuke, and pour out his indignation upon them. Who can abide; be able to endure, or continue in flourishing, peaceful, safe, or joyful state? It is much the same with standing, before mentioned. The fierceness of his anger; this explains the former; the heat of his anger is his indignation, and no creature can bear it. His fury: fury in man speaks somewhat culpable and blameworthy, but in God it cannot be so, it is the intenseness of his just and wise displeasure. Is poured out, with most righteous and wise direction by God himself who is as Nahum 1:2, which see. Like fire; not in the unsteadiness and unruliness, but in the vehemency, spreading nature, and irresistible force of it; as in Sodom's overthrow. The rocks are thrown down by him; though foundations do support other things, yet they cannot support themselves against their God when once angry.

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