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17 lines
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# slow to anger
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"slow to become angry"
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# he will not acquit the wicked
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This emphatic negative statement can be translated positively. Alternate translation: "he will always be sure to punish the wicked" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-litotes]])
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# Yahweh makes his way in the whirlwind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet
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The biblical writers often associated Yahweh's presence with powerful storms. Here the writer speaks of Yahweh as if he were a person walking or marching and kicking up dust as he comes to judge the people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# the dust of his feet
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"the dust that his feet kick up"
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