LORD” in 15:16a, suggests the omission of the LORD is intentional. Perhaps he is uniquely omitted in this one verse of the sub-unit because he seems absent before he turns the morally upside down world right side up in the immediate or remote future (cf. 1 Sam. 2:3–10; Ps. 37:16–17; Lk 1:51–53; 1 Tim. 4:8). 9 This concluding sub unit’s frame again carefully balances the interplay between divine activity in directing human initiative (see 16:1–9), giving God “not only the last word but the soundest.”57
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