the Lord of Spirits. For God’s mercy in the context of judgment, see 1 Enoch 1:8; 5:6. For mercy as a quality that the messianic king shows to the gentiles, see Ps Sol 17:34*[38*]: “he will have mercy on all the nations (that stand) before him in fear” (καὶ ἐλεήσει πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐν φόβῳ). On God’s mercies as “great” (רחמים גדלים), see Isa 54:7*.5 ■ 4–5 The relationship and the difference between this section of chap. 50 and the previous section is evident in a pair of