When God Tilts His Hand the Wicked Fall Like Eggs

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 251:3

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"You stretched out Your right hand" (Exodus 15:12). The verse teaches that when the Omnipresent tilts His hand, the wicked perish from the world, as it is said, "And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria" (Zephaniah 2:13); and it says, "Behold, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines" (Ezekiel 25:16); and it says, "And I will stretch out My hand against Judah"; and it says, "And I will stretch out My hand against Edom" (Ezekiel 25:13). A parable: to what may the matter be compared? To eggs that are set in a person's hand, so that if he tilts his hand even a little, they all fall and shatter, as it is said, "And the LORD will stretch out His hand, and the helper will stumble and the helped one will fall, and together all of them will perish" (Isaiah 31:3).

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