is especially chilling since it recalls the divine laughter of Ps 2:4. 27 The description of the coming calamity uses the word “shoah,” which has been appropriated in recent times to indicate the Holocaust under the Nazi regime. The series of terms in v 27 is marked by alliteration and assonance: שׁואה, “terror,” סופה, “calamity,” צרה, “distress,” and צוקה, “anguish.” They are used in prophetic and apocalyptic literature to describe a coming doom; cf. A. Robert, “Les attaches,” RB 43 (1934) 178–79.