Lovers' quarrel: Arguments and intimacy
When Moses is on Mount Sinai he offers the gutsiest prayer of all time. I’m in awe of it because it doesn’t sound at all pious; it sounds like an argument. The Lord says, “Your people, who you brought out of the land of Egypt, have acted perversely. . . . Now let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them.”
Moses says: “O Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt?” (Exod. 32:7–11).