12
God is already in action - Sword honed on his whetstone, bow strung, arrow on the string,
13
Lethal weapons in hand, each arrow a flaming missile.
14
Look at that guy! He had sex with sin, he's pregnant with evil. Oh, look! He's having the baby - a Lie-Baby!
15
See that man shoveling day after day, digging, then concealing, his man-trap down that lonely stretch of road? Go back and look again - you'll see him in it headfirst, legs waving in the breeze.
16
That's what happens: mischief backfires; violence boomerangs.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.