So pursue them with Your tempest, and frighten them with Your storm.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Lord. Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish, that they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
The Lord would never frighten, confound, dismay or put to shame just for the thrill of it. His purposes—even in judgement—are always restorative, “that they may seek [His] name”.
God is not our enemy. It is we who are at enmity with Him, until we surrender to his love.
