Predation was a night license with a purpose and an expiry. At sunrise the fork is stated twice in the record: come to the table and feed with the lamb — or be shaken out with the darkness you hunted by.
...in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them...
THE CLAIM, FENCED AT THE DOOR
The roaming-seeking-to-devour was never freelance. It was a seasonal function: licensed in a courtroom, bounded by express limits, assigned a purpose — the sifting of the grain — and given an expiry written into the contract. Predation is a NIGHT ordinance by creation design, and the design includes the curfew. This exhibit assembles the license, the purpose, the expiry, the dawn, and the fork that remains: the Benjamin clause or the shaking-out.
Two fences stand at the door. The author's dating of the night season — 1525 to 2025, the night of the eighth day — is carried at CONVICTION, incorporated by reference to its standing fences in the companion exhibits, and load-bearing on nothing above it: every other grade here stands in any chronology. And this exhibit deputizes no one: the Hunter at dawn is the Light, not the reader — Movement VI holds that line. This document is an amnesty notice, not a taunt.
HOW TO READ THE GRADES
Every claim in this exhibit wears a grade chip.
SPINEThe text of Scripture as written — verifiable in any Bible, cited chapter and verse.
SCAFFOLDHistory and documented practice outside the canon.
WITNESSDocumented events and published findings, cited in the sources.
CONVICTIONThe author's held readings of the times — flagged, fenced, and load-bearing on nothing above them.
EXCLUDEDClaims and uses this exhibit deliberately refuses.
MOVEMENT I
The License and the Night
Predation is a night ordinance — bounded, purposive, and on the clock from the start.
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
Read the creation curfew slowly, because it carries the whole premise at SPINE grade. Darkness is made — the night is issued, not accidental. The beasts creep forth in it — predation is assigned to that shift. The lions' roaring after prey is itself called seeking their meat from God — the hunt is licensed provision, not rebellion's freelancing. And at sunrise the predators withdraw — dens, not fields — while man goeth forth unto his work. The day belongs to man's labor; the night to the beasts; and the changeover is the sun. This is Psalm 104 — the same psalm whose fifteenth verse says oil makes the face shine. The curfew and the anointing share a page.
THE LICENSE, ON THE RECORD
THE COURTROOMJob 1 — permission, with express limitsSPINE
The adversary presents himself 'from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it' — the roaming is reported to a bench. And every predation that follows is licensed line by line, with bounds attached: 'all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand' (1:12); 'save his life' (2:6). The hunter operates on a permit with conditions. There is no freelance predation anywhere in the record.
THE PURPOSEThe sifting of the grainSPINE
What the license is FOR is stated in the predator's own request: 'Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat' (Luke 22:31) — the predation function is named as threshing: separating grain from chaff. Amos 9:9 gives the specification and the guarantee: 'I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.' Judges 3:1–4 shows the policy in place: nations deliberately LEFT in the land 'to prove Israel by them.' Deuteronomy 13:3: 'the LORD your God proveth you.' 1 Corinthians 11:19: the approved are made manifest by the pressure. The wolves were the sieve. The sieve is a harvest tool — and harvest tools are seasonal.
THE BOUND1 Peter 5:8–10 — 'a while,' then the perfectingSPINE
The famous roaring-lion verse carries its own clock and its own purpose clause two verses later: 'after that ye have suffered A WHILE' — oligon, a little — the God of all grace shall 'make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.' The prescribed response is resistance, not panic ('whom resist stedfast in the faith') — and the suffering is bounded and productive. The lion's shift, like the press of the companion exhibit, is an extraction schedule: it ends, and what it produced remains.
MOVEMENT II
The Contract's End
The instrument is judged when the work is done — the expiry is in the contract.
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Isaiah 10 is the predator-instrument's employment contract, read in full. Assyria is hired in verse 5 — "the rod of mine anger" — and dispatched against a hypocritical nation with a work order. The rod then does what rods cannot lawfully do: it boasts — "Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?" (10:15) — mistaking the license for its own strength and the assignment for its own appetite. And verse 12 is the clause that governs every hired hunter in the record: when the work is performed, the instrument is punished. Not before — the work must finish — and not skipped: the axe that boasted is burned (10:16–19). The predator's license and the predator's judgment are two halves of one document. Revelation 12:12 shows the predator reads his own contract: "he knoweth that he hath but a short time" — the fury of the late season is clock-awareness, not confidence.
MOVEMENT III
The Hunt at Dawn
The wolves hunt in the evening. They are hunted at sunrise — by the light itself.
The wolf's hunting hour is specified three times: "a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them" (Jeremiah 5:6); horses "more fierce than the evening wolves" (Habakkuk 1:8); "her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow" (Zephaniah 3:3) — and mark that last detail: the evening wolf hoards the bones against a morrow it assumes is its own. Two verses later the same passage answers it: "every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not" (3:5). The wolf/morning antithesis is built into the text.
THE DAWN CORPUS
THE MECHANISMJob 38:12–15 — the dawn shakes the wicked outSPINE
'Hast thou commanded the morning... that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the WICKED might be SHAKEN OUT OF IT?... and from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.' The dawn itself is the hunt: it grips the earth's edges like a cloth and shakes the night's predators out. The removal of the wicked is stated as a property of sunrise.
THE SCHEDULEPsalm 101:8 — in the morningsSPINE
The king's governance charter: 'I will EARLY destroy all the wicked of the land' — Hebrew labbeqarim, 'in the mornings,' plural. The appointed hour of the cutting-off is morning, every time it comes.
THE RECORDEvery showcase removal lands at dawnWITNESS
The Red Sea closed 'in the morning watch... when the morning appeared' (Exodus 14:24–27). Sodom burned when 'the sun was risen upon the earth' (Genesis 19:23–24). Sennacherib's camp: 'when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses' (Isaiah 37:36). Malachi 4:1–3 schedules the last one the same way: the day burns as an oven, the Sun of righteousness ARISES with healing in his wings — and only then, 'ye shall tread down the wicked.'
THE WEAPONThe light itselfSPINE
The lawless one is destroyed 'with the BRIGHTNESS of his coming' (2 Thessalonians 2:8 — epiphaneia, the shining-forth). John 3:19–20 states the mechanism in advance: 'every one that doeth evil hateth the light... lest his deeds should be reproved.' The night predator's entire method is cover. Remove the darkness and the wolf has no habitat. The wolves are not hunted down; they are hunted OUT. The hunt of the wolves is simply the sunrise — and the wise who shine (Daniel 12:3) are not the hounds; the Light is the Hunter, and they are its lamps.
MOVEMENT IV
The Reversal
Esther is the type-narrative — and the predator's self-ambush is stated physics in Proverbs 1.
The exhibit's title has a book. Haman the Agagite builds a device against Mordecai the Benjamite — the hunter of the wolf-tribe — and the narrative closes his arc with the most exact reversal in the canon: hanged on the gallows he built (Esther 7:10), on "the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, though it was turned to the contrary" (9:1 — nahafoch hu, the Purim reversal). And note how the hunted behave in their hour of rule: the spoil is refused, three times recorded (9:10, 15, 16), and the festival instituted is a statute of portions — "sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor" (9:22). The hunter's day ends on his own instrument; the hunted's day ends in distribution.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
This is the physics under the reversal, and it is timeless, record-grade wisdom literature: the predator's stakeout is always, finally, of himself. The pit-digger falls in (Psalm 7:15–16; Proverbs 26:27); the ambush ambushes its layer. The author's summary of the present hour — that to take up predation now, with the night spent and the dawn arriving, is suicide — is carried at CONVICTION as to the hour, and at SPINE as to the mechanism: Proverbs 1 has always graded predation as slow self-destruction. What the sunrise changes is only the speed of the settlement.
MOVEMENT V
The Benjamin Clause
The last-days oracle ends on a wolf — and the wolf's appointed evening is distribution.
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days... Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis 49 announces itself as an end-times oracle — "in the last days" — and Benjamin is the last son blessed: the final entry of the last-days oracle is a wolf's trajectory. And the trajectory is inside the verse: the day opens in consumption — devour the prey — and closes in distribution — divide the spoil, chalaq, the vocabulary of shared victory ("he shall divide the spoil with the strong," Isaiah 53:12). The blessing never un-wolfs Benjamin. It re-tasks him: the ferocity is retained and the disposition of the spoil is converted. Note the mirror against Zephaniah's wolves: the evening wolves hunt at night and HOARD the bones till the morrow; Benjamin devours in the morning and by evening is GIVING the spoil away. Two wolves, opposite schedules — and the discriminator is what each does with the spoil. The dawn sorts wolves by their relationship to the plunder.
THE TRIBE LIVED THE VERSE, CLAUSE BY CLAUSE
THE MORNINGThe ravening phase — and the near-removalSPINE
Ehud's dagger; the atrocity at Gibeah that brought Benjamin within six hundred men of extinction (Judges 19–21) — the wolf-tribe nearly WAS the removal case; Saul the first king, javelin in hand, pursuing David, slaughtering the priests of Nob. The morning clause is savage on the record.
THE TURNThe altar on the wolf's landSPINE
Moses' counterpart blessing hands Benjamin's territory to the LORD himself: 'the beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him... he shall dwell between his shoulders' (Deuteronomy 33:12) — the temple mount in Benjamin's lot, by the old reckoning. The place where portions are divided stands on the wolf's ground.
THE EVENINGMordecai's portions; Paul's giftsSPINE
Mordecai the Benjamite (Esther 2:5) performs the spoil-clause three times over — 'on the spoil laid they not their hand' — then institutes the feast of portions. And the last Benjamite wolf, Saul of Tarsus ('of the tribe of Benjamin,' Philippians 3:5), spends his morning in wolf-anatomy — 'BREATHING out threatenings and slaughter' (Acts 9:1), making 'havock' of the church with a wild-beast verb (8:3) — until the midday light 'above the brightness of the sun' (26:13) takes him ALIVE. Damascus did not reverse Benjamin's blessing; it fulfilled its second clause on schedule. And Paul's evening is spent doing exactly what verse 27 assigns: carrying the inheritance to the nations, gathering the collection for the poor — and writing the divide-the-spoil psalm into doctrine: 'he led captivity captive, and GAVE GIFTS unto men' (Ephesians 4:8, quoting Psalm 68). The wolf, in his night, dividing the spoil of Another's conquest to the flock he once devoured.
MOVEMENT VI
The Table or the Dust
The fork at sunrise — and the one diet the peace oracle does not convert.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid... and the lion shall eat straw like the ox... They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
The peace oracle does not exterminate the predators. It retrains their diet: the wolf dwells with the lamb, the lion eats straw — carnivory converted to the produce of the land, the hunter come to the common table, partaking of the inheritance. That is the Benjamin clause written across the whole animal kingdom. And Isaiah 65:25 repeats the scene with one surgical exception: "the wolf and the lamb shall feed together... and dust shall be the serpent's meat." Every predator's diet is converted — except one. The serpent's ration, assigned at the curse (Genesis 3:14), stands unrevoked in the peace oracle itself. The occupant of the root station — the one the companion exhibit found commanded DOWN, under the feet — is excluded from the amnesty by name. Wolves are offered the table. The serpent keeps the dust.
So the fork at sunrise, stated whole: cease predation and partake — the wolf's ferocity re-tasked to distribution, the Benjamin trajectory, the table where portions are sent — or continue, and be shaken out with the darkness (Job 38:13; Psalm 37:9–11: "evildoers shall be cut off... the wicked shall not be... but the meek shall inherit the earth"). Two ends, one discriminator, and the proof that the first fork is genuinely open is that the most violent wolf on the record was taken alive at midday and died an apostle. The Hunter prefers the second mode when the wolf will have it.
MOVEMENT VII
The Forgetting
No lasting legacy runs through the villain's role — the wicked are not only removed; they are unremembered.
The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
THE TWO LEDGERS
THE ROT LEDGERErasure, stated in stagesSPINE
The wicked's name doesn't merely fade; the canon runs its removal in stages. First the rot — yirkav, decay like a carcass (Proverbs 10:7). Then the blotting: 'thou hast put out their name for ever and ever... their memorial is perished with them' (Psalm 9:5–6); the face of the LORD set 'to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth' (Psalm 34:16); 'he shall be no more remembered' (Job 24:20). Then unfindability: 'yea, thou shalt diligently consider his PLACE, and it shall not be... I sought him, but he could not be found' (Psalm 37:10, 36). And then the terminal clause, spoken over Edom: 'they shall be AS THOUGH THEY HAD NOT BEEN' (Obadiah 16) — not merely dead, not merely forgotten: as if never existent.
THE WELDAmalek's line — the exhibit's villain is the canon's erasure caseSPINE
The one nation in Torah formally sentenced to memory-erasure is Amalek: 'I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven' (Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:19 — 'thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek'). And Haman — this exhibit's type-villain, the hunter hanged on his own device — is THE AGAGITE (Esther 3:1): Agag's line, Amalek's house. The reversal narrative was carrying the forgetting-thesis all along: the hunter of Movement IV is a son of the blotted-out nation, meeting his line's sentence on his own gallows.
THE LITURGYPurim performs the blotting to this daySCAFFOLD
The feast's standing custom: every public reading of the scroll, the congregation DROWNS HAMAN'S NAME WITH NOISE — graggers, stamping, shouting — physically performing the blot-out, while 'the greatness of Mordecai' is 'written in the book of the chronicles' (Esther 10:2). One story, both ledgers, enacted annually for two and a half millennia: the hunter's name is noise-cancelled; the hunted's name is entered in the record.
THE MIRROREverlasting remembrance — the same verb, the other sideSPINE
The righteous hold the mirror promise term for term: 'the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance' (Psalm 112:6); 'an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off' (Isaiah 56:5); 'a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD' (Malachi 3:16); 'I will NOT BLOT OUT his name out of the book of life' (Revelation 3:5) — the blot-verb standing on both sides of the ledger. And Isaiah 65:17 finishes the account at the cosmic scale: in the new heavens and new earth 'the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.' The meek inherit the earth — and the archive.
THE NUANCE, HELD ONCEThe byword phaseSPINE
History does remember its monsters — for a while. The canon's claim is sharper than instant anonymity: villain-memory has a stench and a half-life. The name that persists persists as ROT — a curse-byword ('of them shall be taken up a curse,' Jeremiah 29:22), a warning label — and in the consummation even that residue goes (Obadiah 16; Isaiah 65:17). The only legacy predation can secure is to serve, temporarily, as the cautionary example.
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
The foolishness has its verse, and it is the evening wolf's verdict read over a barn: the rich fool is a hoarder gathering against a morrow that is not his, and the Judge's own word for the strategy is fool. The author's summary stands on this whole movement: the grace was sufficient (2 Corinthians 12:9); the mercy endures for ever (the refrain of Psalm 136, twenty-six times); and the patience is finite — "my spirit shall not always strive with man" (Genesis 6:3), and 2 Peter 3 carries both clauses in adjacent verses: longsuffering, not willing that any perish — but the day of the Lord will come. At the appointed time, vengeance is His and He will repay (Romans 12:19; Deuteronomy 32:35). To grasp the two ledgers and remain in the rot column is the epitome of the foolishness Luke 12 names. There is no lasting legacy in the villain's role — the role itself is scheduled for non-recall.
MOVEMENT VIII
What This Exhibit Refuses
Three uses of the hunt that its own texts forbid.
THE REFUSALS
REFUSEDDeputizationEXCLUDED
The Hunter at dawn is the Light — never the reader. 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord' (Romans 12:19), and the command standing over the saints in the meantime is the opposite of the hunt: 'if thine enemy hunger, FEED him' (12:20). Malachi 4:3's treading is post-sunrise and on the Lord's schedule, not anyone's initiative. A reader who takes this exhibit as license to hunt any human being has inverted it.
REFUSEDGloatingEXCLUDED
This document is an amnesty notice, not a taunt. The delay of the settlement is itself defined as mercy — 'the Lord... is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish' (2 Peter 3:9) — and the exhibit's own centerpiece is a wolf spared. 'Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth' (Proverbs 24:17) governs the tone throughout.
REFUSEDCalendar weaponizationEXCLUDED
The author's dating of the night season is CONVICTION, fenced and load-bearing on nothing. No one's standing before God is determined by another man's chronology, and the fork this exhibit describes — the table or the dust — was open in every generation and is settled by the Judge alone, at the hour only the Father knows (Mark 13:32).
MOVEMENT IX
The Close — Notice to Wolves
The last wolf taken alive wrote the terms.
If Saul of Tarsus can become Paul the Apostle, who are we to judge?
If the night was your shift — if the roaming and the devouring were how you fed — the record's word to you at sunrise is not first a threat. It is a precedent. The most dangerous wolf in the book, breathing slaughter on the road at midday, was not shaken out. He was blinded into the family — taken alive by a light above the brightness of the sun, fed by the hands of the flock he came to tear (Acts 9:17–19), and spent the rest of his day doing what his tribe's blessing had promised from the beginning: dividing the spoil. He wrote the amnesty's terms himself, from the inside: "this is a faithful saying... that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief" (1 Timothy 1:15). Chief of sinners — the alpha of the pack — filed as Exhibit A of the mercy.
The fork does not stay open forever; the dawn corpus is as much the record as the Damascus road. But while the door stands, the terms stand with it: cease the predation, come to the table, receive a portion and begin sending portions — the ferocity re-tasked, the zeal kept, the prey list ended. The alternative is Proverbs 1:18, running at sunrise speed. The wolves of the evening hoarded bones for a morrow that was never theirs. The wolf of Benjamin gave the spoil away — and inherited the morning.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
MOVEMENT X
Sources
Fourteen entries. Audited against the record, 19 August 2026.
Psalm 104:20–23 — the creation curfew: darkness made, beasts creep forth, lions seek their meat FROM GOD; the sun arises, the predators withdraw to dens, and man goes forth to his work. In the same psalm as verse 15: oil that makes the face shine
The license and its bounds — Job 1:6–12 and 2:1–6 (the courtroom, the going to and fro, the express limits); 1 Peter 5:8–10 ('a while,' then perfecting); Luke 22:31–32 (sift you as wheat — permission requested, intercession answering); Amos 9:9 (sifted among all nations, not the least grain falling); Judges 3:1–4 (nations deliberately left, to prove Israel); Deuteronomy 13:3; 1 Corinthians 11:19
The end-of-work clause — Isaiah 10:5–19: Assyria as the rod of God's anger, the axe forbidden to boast against its wielder, and verse 12: 'when the Lord hath performed his whole work... I will punish' — the instrument judged at the completion of the assignment. Revelation 12:12 (the predator's own clock-awareness: 'he knoweth that he hath but a short time')
The hunt at dawn — Job 38:12–15 (the morning commanded to take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it); Psalm 101:8 (labbeqarim — 'I will early destroy,' in the mornings); Zephaniah 3:3–5 (evening wolves; every morning he bringeth his judgment to light); Exodus 14:24–27 (the morning watch; when the morning appeared); Genesis 19:23–24 (Sodom at sunrise); Isaiah 37:36 (the morning corpses); Malachi 4:1–3 (the Sun arises: oven, healing, then the treading)
Light as the weapon — 2 Thessalonians 2:8 (destroyed with the brightness — epiphaneia — of his coming); John 3:19–21 (the night predator's method is cover; remove the darkness and the habitat is gone); Romans 13:12; Daniel 12:3
The reversal narrative — the book of Esther: Haman the Agagite's device against Mordecai the Benjamite; the gallows reversal (7:10); Esther 9:1 — 'it was turned to the contrary' (nahafoch hu, the Purim reversal); the spoil refused three times (9:10, 15, 16); the statute of portions (9:22)
Self-ambush as the predator's physics — Proverbs 1:18–19 ('they lay wait for THEIR OWN blood; they lurk privily for THEIR OWN lives... so are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain'); Psalm 7:15–16; Proverbs 26:27; Ecclesiastes 10:8
The Benjamin clause — Genesis 49:1 (the last-days header) and 49:27 (morning devour, night divide); chalaq/divide-the-spoil vocabulary (Isaiah 53:12; Psalm 68:12); Deuteronomy 33:12 (the beloved dwelling between his shoulders — the altar on the wolf's land); Judges 19–21 (Gibeah and the near-removal of the tribe); Esther 9 (the spoil-clause performed and the feast of portions instituted); Philippians 3:5 and Romans 11:1 with Acts 8:3, 9:1 and 26:13 (the wolf's morning, and the midday light above the brightness of the sun); Ephesians 4:8 quoting Psalm 68 (the wolf, in his evening, writing the divide-the-spoil psalm as 'gave gifts unto men')
The table or the dust — Isaiah 11:6–9 (the wolf dwelling with the lamb; the lion eating straw; no hurting nor destroying in all the holy mountain); Isaiah 65:25 (wolf and lamb feeding TOGETHER — and dust remaining the serpent's meat: the one diet not converted); Psalm 37:9–11 with Proverbs 2:21–22 (the removal mode); Romans 16:20
The amnesty's terms — Romans 12:19–21 (vengeance is the Lord's; feed the enemy); 2 Peter 3:9 (the delay as longsuffering); Revelation 3:20; Matthew 26:29 and Psalm 23:5 (the table the amnesty leads to)
The author's chronology — the 525–1525 millennium and the 1525–2025 night season, litigated in the companion exhibits and carried here at CONVICTION with their standing fences, incorporated by reference; Mark 13:32 standing over every date. Every other grade in this exhibit stands in any chronology
TheTimeOfTheReturn.com companions — The Beaten Oil (the press, the flow law, the two presses, and 'Why the Plowshares Wait'); The Stations of the Lamp (the root inversion: the serpent at the base, and the Nehushtan verdict)
The forgetting — Proverbs 10:7 (the name of the wicked shall rot); Psalm 9:5–6; Psalm 34:16; Job 24:20; Psalm 37:10, 36 (the place unfindable); Obadiah 16 ('as though they had not been'); Jeremiah 29:22 (the byword phase); Exodus 17:14 and Deuteronomy 25:19 (the Amalek erasure sentence) with Esther 3:1 (Haman the AGAGITE — Amalek's line) and Esther 10:2 (Mordecai in the chronicles); the Purim noise-custom over Haman's name: standard Jewish practice, scaffold grade. The mirror ledger: Psalm 112:6; Isaiah 56:5; Malachi 3:16; Revelation 3:5 (the blot-verb on both sides); Isaiah 65:17
The verdict and the clock — Luke 12:16–21 ('Thou fool'); 2 Corinthians 12:9; Psalm 136 (the mercy refrain); Genesis 6:3 with 2 Peter 3:9–10 (longsuffering adjacent to the coming day); Romans 12:19 with Deuteronomy 32:35 (vengeance is His; He will repay); Matthew 5:5