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Your right hand, O LORD, magnificent in power, your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.
[EX 15:6-7]
"You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans."
[EX 22:21-23]
"I see how stiff-necked this people is," continued
the LORD to Moses. "Let me alone, then, that my wrath may
blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a
great nation." But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying,
"Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own
people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great
power and with so strong a hand? Why should the Egyptians say,
'With evil intent he brought them out, that he might kill them in
the mountains and exterminate them from the face of the earth'?
Let your blazing wrath die down; relent in punishing your people.
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and how you
swore to them by your own self, saying, 'I will make your
descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land
that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual
heritage.'" So the LORD relented in the punishment he had
threatened to inflict on his people. [EX 32:9-14]
Moses then turned and came down the mountain with the two
tablets of the commandments in his hands, tablets that were
written on both sides, front and back; tablets that were made by
God, having inscriptions on them that were engraved by God
himself. Now, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting,
he said to Moses, "That sounds like a battle in the
camp." But Moses answered, "It does not sound like cries
of victory, nor does it sound like cries of defeat; the sounds
that I hear are cries of revelry." As he drew near the camp,
he saw the calf and the dancing. With that, Moses' wrath flared
up, so that he threw the tablets down and broke them on the base
of the mountain. Taking the calf they had made, he fused it in the
fire and then ground it down to powder, which he scattered on the
water and made the Israelites drink. Moses asked Aaron, "What
did this people ever do to you that you should lead them into so
grave a sin?" Aaron replied, "Let not my lord be angry.
You know well enough how prone the people are to evil. They said
to me, 'Make us a god to be our leader; as for the man Moses who
brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has
happened to him.' So I told them, 'Let anyone who has gold jewelry
take it off.' They gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire,
and this calf came out." When Moses realized that, to the
scornful joy of their foes, Aaron had let the people run wild, he
stood at the gate of the camp and cried, "Whoever is for the
LORD, let him come to me!" All the Levites then rallied to
him, and he told them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of
Israel: Put your sword on your hip, every one of you! Now go up
and down the camp, from gate to gate, and slay your own kinsmen,
your friends and neighbors!" The Levites carried out the
command of Moses, and that day there fell about three thousand of
the people. Then Moses said, "Today you have been dedicated
to the LORD, for you were against your own sons and kinsmen, to
bring a blessing upon yourselves this day." [EX 32:15-29]
Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not bare your heads or tear your garments, lest you bring not only death on yourselves but God's wrath also on the whole community. Your kinsmen, the rest of the house of Israel, shall mourn for those whom the LORD'S fire has smitten; but do not you go beyond the entry of the meeting tent, else you shall die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." So they did as Moses told
them. [LEV
10:6-7]
For the LORD had told Moses, "The tribe of Levi alone you
shall not enroll nor include in the census along with the other
Israelites. You are to give the Levites charge of the Dwelling of
the commandments with all its equipment and all that belongs to
it. It is they who shall carry the Dwelling with all its equipment
and who shall be its ministers. They shall therefore camp around
the Dwelling. When the Dwelling is to move on, the Levites shall
take it down; when the Dwelling is to be pitched, it is the
Levites who shall set it up. Any layman who comes near it shall be
put to death. While the other Israelites shall camp by companies,
each in his own division of the camp, the Levites shall camp
around the Dwelling of the commandments. Otherwise God's wrath
will strike the Israelite community. The Levites, then, shall have
charge of the Dwelling of the commandments." All this the
Israelites fulfilled as the LORD had commanded Moses. [NUM 1:48-54]
Now the people complained in the hearing of the LORD; and when he heard it his wrath flared up so that the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp. But when the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died out. [NUM 11:1-2]
The LORD'S wrath flared up against the people, and he struck them with a very great
plague. So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because it was there that the greedy people were buried.
[Taken from NUM 11:33-34]
The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against
Moses and Aaron, saying, "It is you who have slain the LORD'S
people." But while the community was deliberating against
them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the meeting tent, and the
cloud now covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared. Then
Moses and Aaron came to the front of the meeting tent, and the
LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Depart from this community,
that I may consume them at once." But they fell prostrate.
Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, put fire from
the altar in it, lay incense on it, and bring it quickly to the
community to make atonement for them; for wrath has come forth
from the LORD and the blow is falling." Obeying the orders of
Moses, Aaron took his censer and ran in among the community, where
the blow was already falling on the people. Then, as he offered
the incense and made atonement for the people, standing there
between the living and the dead, the scourge was checked. Yet
fourteen thousand seven hundred died from the scourge, in addition
to those who died because of Korah. When the scourge had been
checked, Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the meeting
tent. [NUM 17:6-15]
The LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons as well as the
other members of your ancestral house shall be responsible for the
sanctuary; but the responsibility of the priesthood shall rest on
you and your sons alone. Bring with you also your other kinsmen of
the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, as your associates and
assistants, while you and your sons are in front of the tent of
the commandments. They shall look after your persons and the whole
tent; however, they shall not come near the sacred vessels or the
altar, lest both they and you die. As your associates they shall
have charge of all the work connected with the meeting tent. But
no layman shall come near you. You shall have charge of the
sanctuary and of the altar, that wrath may not fall again upon the
Israelites. Remember, it is I who have taken your kinsmen, the
Levites, from the body of the Israelites; they are a gift to you,
dedicated to the LORD for the service of the meeting tent. But
only you and your sons are to have charge of performing the
priestly functions in whatever concerns the altar and the room
within the veil. I give you the priesthood as a gift. Any layman
who draws near shall be put to death." [NUM 18:1-7]
When Israel thus submitted to the rites of Baal of Peor, the LORD'S anger flared up against Israel, and he said to Moses, "Gather all the leaders of the people, and hold a public execution of the guilty ones before the LORD, that his blazing wrath may be turned away from Israel."
[NUM 25:3-4]
But Moses answered the Gadites and Reubenites: "Are your
kinsmen, then, to engage in war, while you remain here? Why do you
wish to discourage the Israelites from crossing to the land the
LORD has given them? That is just what your fathers did when I
sent them from Kadesh-barnea to reconnoiter the land. They went up
to the Wadi Eshcol and reconnoitered the land, then so discouraged
the Israelites that they would not enter the land the LORD had
given them. At that time the wrath of the LORD flared up, and he
swore, 'Because they have not followed me unreservedly, none of
these men of twenty years or more who have come up from Egypt
shall ever see this country I promised under oath to Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob, except the Kenizzite Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and
Joshua, son of Nun, who have followed the LORD unreservedly.' So
in his anger with the Israelites the LORD made them wander in the
desert forty years, until the whole generation that had done evil
in the sight of the LORD had died out. And now here you are, a
brood of sinners, rising up in your fathers' place to add still
more to the LORD'S blazing wrath against the Israelites. If you
turn away from following him, he will make them stay still longer
in the desert, and so you will bring about the ruin of this whole
nation." [NUM 32:6-15]
The LORD, your God, shall you fear; him shall you serve, and by his name shall you swear. You shall not follow other gods, such as those of the surrounding nations, lest the wrath of the LORD, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from the face of the land; for the LORD, your God, who is in your midst, is a jealous God.
[DEUT 6:13-15]
"When the LORD, your God, brings you into the land which
you are to enter and occupy, and dislodges great nations before
you - the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites: seven nations more numerous and powerful
than you - and when the LORD, your God, delivers them up to you
and you defeat them, you shall doom them. Make no covenant with
them and show them no mercy. You shall not intermarry with them,
neither giving your daughters to their sons nor taking their
daughters for your sons. For they would turn your sons from
following me to serving other gods, and then the wrath of the LORD
would flare up against you and quickly destroy you." [DEUT 7:1-4]
"When I had come down again from the blazing, fiery
mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in both my hands, I
saw how you had sinned against the LORD, your God: you had already
turned aside from the way which the LORD had pointed out to you by
making for yourselves a molten calf! Raising the two tablets with
both hands I threw them from me and broke them before your eyes.
Then, as before, I lay prostrate before the LORD for forty days
and forty nights without eating or drinking, because of all the
sin you had committed in the sight of the LORD and the evil you
had done to provoke him. For I dreaded the fierce anger of the
LORD against you: his wrath would destroy you. Yet once again the
LORD listened to me. With Aaron, too, the LORD was deeply angry,
and would have killed him had I not prayed for him also at that
time." [DEUT 9:15-20]
If, then, you truly heed my commandments which I enjoin on you
today, loving and serving the LORD, your God, with all your heart
and all your soul, I will give the seasonal rain to your land, the
early rain and the late rain, that you may have your grain, wine
and oil to gather in; and I will bring forth grass in your fields
for your animals. Thus you may eat your fill. But be careful lest
your heart be so lured away that you serve other gods and worship
them. For then the wrath of the LORD will flare up against you and
he will close up the heavens, so that no rain will fall, and the
soil will not yield its crops, and you will soon perish from the
good land he is giving you. [DEUT 11:13-17]
You shall not retain anything that is doomed, that the blazing wrath of the LORD may die down and he may show you mercy and in his mercy for you may multiply you as he promised your fathers on oath; because you have heeded the voice of the LORD, your God, keeping all his commandments which I enjoin on you today, doing what is right in his sight.
[DEUT 13:18-19]
"You know in what surroundings we lived in the land of
Egypt and what we passed by in the nations we traversed, and you
saw the loathsome idols of wood and stone, of gold and silver,
that they possess. Let there be, then, no man or woman, no clan or
tribe among you, who would now turn away their hearts from the
LORD, our God, to go and serve these pagan gods! Let there be no
root that would bear such poison and wormwood among you. If any
such person, upon hearing the words of this curse, should beguile
himself into thinking that he can safely persist in his
stubbornness of heart, as though to sweep away both the watered
soil and the parched ground, the LORD will never consent to pardon
him. Instead, the LORD'S wrath and jealousy will flare up against
that man, and every curse mentioned in this book will alight on
him. The LORD will blot out his name from under the heavens and
will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in
keeping with all the curses of the covenant inscribed in this book
of the law. Future generations, your own descendants who will rise
up after you, as well as the foreigners who will come here from
far-off lands, when they see the calamities of this land and the
ills with which the LORD has smitten it - all its soil being
nothing but sulphur and salt, a burnt-out waste, unsown and
unfruitful, without a blade of grass, destroyed like Sodom and
Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his
furious wrath - they and all the nations will ask, 'Why has the
LORD dealt thus with this land? Why this fierce outburst of
wrath?' And the answer will be, 'Because they forsook the covenant
which the LORD, the God of their fathers, had made with them when
he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they went and served
other gods and adored them, gods whom they did not know and whom
he had not let fall to their lot: that is why the LORD was angry
with this land and brought on it all the imprecations listed in
this book; in his furious wrath and tremendous anger the LORD
uprooted them from their soil and cast them out into a strange
land, where they are today.'" [DEUT 29:15-27]
"Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and
angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a
'no-people'; with a foolish nation I will anger them. For by
my wrath a fire is enkindled that shall rage to the depths of the
nether world, Consuming the earth with its yield, and
licking with flames the roots of the mountains. I will spend on
them woe upon woe and exhaust all my arrows against them:
Emaciating hunger and consuming fever and bitter
pestilence, And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among
them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.
Snatched away by the sword in the street and by sheer terror
at home Shall be the youth and the maiden alike, the
nursing babe as well as the hoary old man." [DEUT 32:21-25]
This is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, pronounced
upon the Israelites before he died. He said: "The LORD
came from Sinai and dawned on his people from Seir; He
shone forth from Mount Paran and advanced from
Meribath-kadesh, While at his right hand a fire blazed
forth and his wrath devastated the nations. But all his holy
ones were in his hand; they followed at his feet and he
bore them up on his pinions. A law he gave to us; he made the
community of Jacob his domain, and he became king of his darling.
When the chiefs of the people assembled and the tribes of
Israel came together." [Taken from DEUT 33:1-5]
"If you consider the land you now possess unclean, cross over to the land the LORD possesses, where the Dwelling of the LORD stands, and share that with us. But do not rebel against the LORD, nor involve us in rebellion, by building an altar of your own in addition to the altar of the LORD, our God. When Achan, son of Zerah, violated the ban, did not wrath fall upon the entire community of Israel? Though he was but a single man, he did not perish alone for his guilt!"
[JOSH 22:19-20]
In my distress I called upon the LORD and cried out to my
God; From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry reached
his ears. "The earth swayed and quaked; the foundations
of the heavens trembled and shook when his wrath flared up.
Smoke rose from his nostrils, and a devouring fire from his
mouth; he kindled coals into flame. He inclined the heavens
and came down, with dark clouds under his feet. He mounted a
cherub and flew, borne on the wings of the wind. He made
darkness the shelter about him, with spattering rain and
thickening clouds. From the brightness of his presence coals were
kindled to flame. The LORD thundered from heaven; the Most
High gave forth his voice. He sent forth arrows to put them to
flight; he flashed lightning and routed them. Then the
wellsprings of the sea appeared, the foundations of the earth
were laid bare, At the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast
of the wind of his wrath. He reached out from on high and grasped
me; he drew me out of the deep waters. He rescued me from my
mighty enemy, from my foes, who were too powerful for
me." [2SAM 22:7-18]
The wrath against Israel was so
great that they gave up the siege and returned to their own land.
[Taken from 2KGS 3:27]
David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites
Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, and said to
them: "You, the heads of the levitical families, must
sanctify yourselves along with your brethren and bring the ark of
the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place which I have prepared
for it. Because you were not with us the first time, the wrath of
the LORD our God burst upon us, for we did not seek him
aright." Accordingly, the priests and the Levites sanctified
themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. [1CHRON 15:11-14]
Joab, son of Zeruiah, began to take the census, but he did not
complete it, for because of it wrath fell upon Israel. Therefore
the number did not enter into the book of chronicles of King
David. [1CHRON 27:24]
After Rehoboam had consolidated his rule and had become
powerful, he abandoned the law of the LORD, he and all Israel with
him. Thus it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam,
Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem, for they had been
unfaithful to the LORD. He came up with twelve hundred chariots
and sixty thousand horsemen, and there was no counting the army
that came with him from Egypt - Libyans, Sukkites and Ethiopians.
They captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as
Jerusalem. Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the
commanders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of
Shishak, and said to them: "Thus says the LORD: 'You have
abandoned me, and therefore I have abandoned you to the power of
Shishak.'" However, the commanders of Israel and the king
humbled themselves saying, "The LORD is just." When the
LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD
came to Shemaiah: "Because they have humbled themselves, I
will not destroy them; I will give them some deliverance, and my
wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem through Shishak. But
they shall be his servants, that they may know what it is to serve
me and what it is to serve earthly kingdoms." [2CHRON 12:1-8]
King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned in safety to his house in
Jerusalem. Jehu the seer, son of Hanani, met King Jehoshaphat and
said to him: "Should you help the wicked and love those who
hate the LORD? For this reason, wrath is upon you from the LORD.
Yet some good things are to be found in you, since you have
removed the sacred poles from the land and have been determined to
seek God." [2CHRON 19:1-3]
In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some Levites and
priests and some of the family heads of Israel to judge in the
name of the LORD and to settle quarrels among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. He gave them this command: "You shall act
faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD. And in
every dispute that your brethren living in their cities bring to
you, whether it concerns bloodguilt or questions of law, command,
statutes, or judgments, warn them lest they become guilty before
the LORD and his wrath come upon you and your brethren. Do that
and you shall be guiltless. See now, Amariah is high priest over
you in everything that pertains to the LORD, and Zebadiah, son of
Ishmael, is leader of the house of Judah in all that pertains to
the king; and the Levites will be your officials. Act firmly, and
the LORD will be with the good." [2CHRON 19:8-11]
After the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and paid
homage to the king, and the king then listened to them. They
forsook the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and
began to serve the sacred poles and the idols; and because of this
crime of theirs, wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem. Although
prophets were sent to them to convert them to the LORD, the people
would not listen to their warnings. Then the spirit of God
possessed Zechariah, son of Jehoiada the priest. He took his stand
above the people and said to them: "God says, 'Why are you
transgressing the LORD'S commands, so that you cannot prosper?
Because you have abandoned the LORD, he has abandoned you.'" [2CHRON 24:17-20]
We then questioned the elders, addressing to them the following
words: 'Who issued the decree for you to build this house and
raise this edifice?' We also asked them their names, to report
them to you in a list of the men who are their leaders. This was
their answer to us: 'We are the servants of the God of heaven and
earth, and we are rebuilding the house built here long years ago,
which a great king of Israel built and finished. But because our
fathers provoked the wrath of the God of heaven, he delivered them
into the power of the Chaldean, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
who destroyed this house and led the people captive to Babylon.
However, in the first year of Cyrus, king of Babylon, King Cyrus
issued a decree for the rebuilding of this house of God.' [EZRA 5:9-13]
I, Artaxerxes the king, issue this decree to all the treasurers
of West-of-Euphrates: Whatever Ezra the priest, scribe of the law
of the God of heaven, requests of you, dispense to him accurately,
within these limits: silver, one hundred talents; wheat, one
hundred kors; wine, one hundred baths; oil, one hundred baths;
salt, without limit. Let everything that is ordered by the God of
heaven be carried out exactly for the house of the God of heaven,
that wrath may not come upon the realm of the king and his sons. [EZRA 7:21-23]
Then I proclaimed a fast, there by the river of Ahava, that we
might humble ourselves before our God to petition from him a safe
journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions. For
I would have been ashamed to ask the king for troops and horsemen
to protect us against enemies along the way, since we had said to
the king, "The favoring hand of our God is upon all who seek
him, but his mighty wrath is against all who forsake him." So
we fasted, and prayed to our God for this, and our petition was
granted. [EZRA 8:21-23]
I took the nobles of Judah to task, demanding of them:
"What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the
sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this same way, with the
result that our God has brought all this evil upon us and upon
this city? Would you add to the wrath against Israel by once more
profaning the sabbath?" When the shadows were falling on the
gates of Jerusalem before the sabbath, I ordered the doors to be
closed and forbade them to be reopened till after the sabbath. I
posted some of my own men at the gates so that no burden might
enter on the sabbath day. The merchants and sellers of various
kinds of merchandise spent the night once or twice outside
Jerusalem, but then I warned them, saying to them: "Why do
you spend the night alongside the wall? If you keep this up, I
will lay hands on you!" From that time on, they did not
return on the sabbath. Then I ordered the Levites to purify
themselves and to go and watch the gates, so that the sabbath day
might be kept holy. This, too, remember in my favor, O my God, and
have mercy on me in accordance with your great mercy! [NEH 13:17-22]
When he had completed his plan, Nebuchadnezzar, king of the
Assyrians, summoned Holofernes, general in chief of his forces,
second to himself in command, and said to him: "Thus says the
great king, the lord of all the earth: Go forth from my presence,
take with you men of proven valor, a hundred and twenty thousand
infantry and twelve thousand cavalry, and proceed against all the
land of the West, because they did not comply with the order I
issued. Tell them to have earth and water ready, for I will come
against them in my wrath; I will cover all the land with the feet
of my soldiers, to whom I will deliver them as spoils." [JDTH 2:4-7]
"You, the Lord, crush warfare; Lord is your
name. Shatter their strength in your might, and crush their
force in your wrath; for they have resolved to profane your
sanctuary, to defile the tent where your glorious name
resides, and to overthrow with iron the horns of your altar.
See their pride, and send forth your wrath upon their heads. Give
me, a widow, the strong hand to execute my plan. With the guile of
my lips, smite the slave together with the ruler, the ruler
together with his servant; crush their pride by the hand of a
woman. Your strength is not in numbers, nor does your power depend
upon stalwart men; but you are the God of the lowly, the helper of
the oppressed, the supporter of the weak, the protector of the
forsaken, the savior of those without hope. Please, please, God of
my forefather, God of the heritage of Israel, Lord of heaven and
earth, Creator of the waters, King of all you have created, hear
my prayer!" [JDTH 9:8-12]
"As for Achior's speech in your council, we have heard of
it. When the men of Bethulia spared him, he told them all he had
said to you. So then, my lord and master, do not disregard his
word, but bear it in mind, for it is true. For our people are not
punished, nor does the sword prevail against them, except when
they sin against their God. But now their guilt has caught up with
them, by which they bring the wrath of their God upon them
whenever they do wrong; so that my lord will not be repulsed and
fail, but death will overtake them." [JDTH 11:9-11]
But Queen Vashti refused to come at the royal order issued
through the eunuchs. At this the king's wrath flared up, and he
burned with fury. [ESTH 1:12]
When Mattathias and his friends heard of it, they mourned
deeply for them. "If we all do as our kinsmen have
done," they said to one another, "and do not fight
against the Gentiles for our lives and our traditions, they will
soon destroy us from the earth." On that day they came to
this decision: "Let us fight against anyone who attacks us on
the sabbath, so that we may not all die as our kinsmen died in the
hiding places." Then they were joined by a group of
Hasideans, valiant Israelites, all of them devout followers of the
law. And all those who were fleeing from the disaster joined them
and supported them. They gathered an army and struck down sinners
in their anger and lawbreakers in their wrath, and the survivors
fled to the Gentiles for safety. [1MACC 2:39-44]
Then his son Judas, who was called Maccabeus, took his place.
All his brothers and all who had joined his father supported him,
and they carried on Israel's war joyfully. He spread abroad the
glory of his people, and put on his breastplate like a
giant. He armed himself with weapons of war; he planned
battles and protected the camp with his sword. He went about the
cities of Judah destroying the impious there. He turned
away wrath from Israel and was renowned to the ends of the
earth; he gathered together those who were perishing. [1MACC 3:1-3,8-9]
"Like my brothers, I offer up my body and my life for our ancestral laws, imploring God to show mercy soon to our nation, and by afflictions and blows to make you confess that he alone is God.
Through me and my brothers, may there be an end to the wrath of the Almighty that has justly fallen on our whole nation."
[2MACC 7:37-38]
Once Maccabeus got his men organized, the Gentiles could not
withstand him, for the Lord's wrath had now changed to mercy.
[2MACC 8:5]
As I see it, those who plow for mischief and sow trouble,
reap the same. By the breath of God they perish, and by the
blast of his wrath they are consumed. [JOB 4:8-9]
Oh, that you would hide me in the nether world and keep me
sheltered till your wrath is past; would fix a time for me, and
then remember me! [JOB 14:13]
His wrath he has kindled against me; he counts me among his
enemies. [JOB 19:11]
May God not store up the man's misery for his
children; let him requite the man himself so that he feels
it, Let his own eyes see the calamity, and the wrath of the
Almighty let him drink! [JOB 21:19-20]
Then the three men ceased to answer Job, because he was
righteous in his own eyes. But the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel
the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled. He was angry with
Job for considering himself rather than God to be in the right. He
was angry also with the three friends because they had not found a
good answer and had not condemned Job. But since these men were
older than he, Elihu bided his time before addressing Job. When,
however, Elihu saw that there was no reply in the mouths of the
three men, his wrath was inflamed. [JOB 32:1-5]
Then the LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said: Gird up
your loins now, like a man. I will question you, and you tell
me the answers! Would you refuse to acknowledge my
right? Would you condemn me that you may be justified? Have
you an arm like that of God, or can you thunder with a voice
like his? Adorn yourself with grandeur and majesty, and array
yourself with glory and splendor. Let loose the fury of your
wrath; tear down the wicked and shatter them. Bring down the
haughty with a glance; bury them in the dust together; in the
hidden world imprison them. Then will I too acknowledge that
your own right hand can save you. [JOB 40:6-14]
Why do the nations protest and the peoples grumble in
vain? Kings on earth rise up and princes plot
together against the LORD and his anointed: "Let us
break their shackles and cast off their chains!" The one
enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord derides them, Then
speaks to them in anger, terrifies them in wrath: "I
myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy
mountain." I will proclaim the decree of the LORD, who
said to me, "You are my son; today I am your
father." [PS 2:1-7]
Do not reprove me in your anger, LORD, nor punish me in
your wrath. Have pity on me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me,
LORD, for my bones are trembling. In utter terror is my soul [Taken from PS 6:2-4]
In my distress I called out: LORD! I cried out to my
God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry to him
reached his ears. The earth rocked and shook; the foundations
of the mountains trembled; they shook as his wrath flared up.
Smoke rose in his nostrils, a devouring fire poured from his
mouth; it kindled coals into flame. He parted the heavens and
came down, a dark cloud under his feet. Mounted on a cherub
he flew, borne along on the wings of the wind. He made
darkness the cover about him; his canopy, heavy thunderheads.
Before him scudded his clouds, hail and lightning too. The
LORD thundered from heaven; the Most High made his voice
resound. He let fly his arrows and scattered them; shot his
lightning bolts and dispersed them. Then the bed of the sea
appeared; the world's foundations lay bare, At the roar
of the LORD, at the storming breath of his nostrils. He
reached down from on high and seized me; drew me out of the
deep waters. [PS 18:7-17]
Give up your anger, abandon your wrath; do not be
provoked; it brings only harm. Those who do evil will be cut
off, but those who wait for the LORD will possess the land. [PS 37:8-9]
LORD, punish me no more in your anger; in your wrath do
not chastise me! Your arrows have sunk deep in me; your hand
has come down upon me. My flesh is afflicted because of your
anger; my frame aches because of my sin. My iniquities overwhelm
me, a burden beyond my strength.
[PS 38:2-5]
Make their eyes so dim they cannot see; keep their backs
ever feeble. Pour out your wrath upon them; let the fury of
your anger overtake them. Make their camp desolate, with none
to dwell in their tents. For they pursued the one you
struck, added to the pain of the one you wounded. Add that to
their crimes; let them not attain to your reward. Strike them
from the book of the living; do not count them among the
just! [PS 69:24-29]
At your roar, O God of Jacob, chariots and steeds lay
still. So terrible and awesome are you; who can stand before
you and your great anger? From the heavens you pronounced
sentence; the earth was terrified and reduced to silence,
When you arose, O God, for judgment to deliver the afflicted
of the land. Selah Even wrathful Edom praises you; the
remnant of Hamath keeps your feast. [PS 76:7-11]
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your rage
keep burning like fire? Pour out your wrath on nations that reject
you, on kingdoms that do not call on your name, For they have
devoured Jacob, laid waste his home. Do not hold past
iniquities against us; may your compassion come
quickly, for we have been brought very low. [PS 79:5-8]
You once favored, LORD, your land, restored the good
fortune of Jacob. You forgave the guilt of your
people, pardoned all their sins. You withdrew all your
wrath, turned back your burning anger. Restore us once more,
God our savior; abandon your wrath against us. Will you be
angry with us forever, drag out your anger for all
generations? Please give us life again, that your people may
rejoice in you. Show us, LORD, your love; grant us your
salvation. [Taken from PS 85:2-8]
You plunged me into the bottom of the pit, into the
darkness of the abyss. Your wrath lies heavy upon me; all
your waves crash over me. Because of you my friends shun
me; you make me loathsome to them; Caged in, I cannot
escape; my eyes grow dim from trouble. All day I call on you,
LORD; I stretch out my hands to you. [Taken from PS 88:7-10]
But I cry out to you, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes
before you. Why do you reject me, LORD? Why hide your face
from me? I am mortally afflicted since youth; lifeless, I
suffer your terrible blows. Your wrath has swept over
me; your terrors have reduced me to silence. All the day they
surge round like a flood; from every side they close in on
me. Because of you companions shun me; my only friend is
darkness. [PS 88:14-19]
How long, LORD? Will you stay hidden forever? Must
your wrath smolder like fire? Remember how brief is my
life, how frail the race you created! [PS 89:47-48]
Truly we are consumed by your anger, filled with terror by
your wrath. You have kept our faults before you, our hidden
sins exposed to your sight. Our life ebbs away under your
wrath; our years end like a sigh. Seventy is the sum of our
years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are
sorrow and toil; they pass quickly, we are all but gone. Who
comprehends your terrible anger? Your wrath matches the fear
it inspires. Teach us to count our days aright, that we may
gain wisdom of heart. Relent, O LORD! How long? Have pity on
your servants! Fill us at daybreak with your love, that all
our days we may sing for joy. Make us glad as many days as you
humbled us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. [PS 90:7-15]
I lie awake and moan, like a lone sparrow on the roof. All
day long my enemies taunt me; in their rage, they make my
name a curse. I eat ashes like bread, mingle my drink with
tears. Because of your furious wrath, you lifted me up just
to cast me down. My days are like a lengthening shadow; I
wither like the grass. [PS 102:8-12]
At your right hand is the Lord, who crushes kings on the
day of wrath, Who, robed in splendor, judges nations, crushes
heads across the wide earth, Who drinks from the brook by the
wayside and thus holds high the head. [PS 110:5-7]
But he who commits adultery is a fool; he who would
destroy himself does it. A degrading beating will he get, and
his disgrace will not be wiped away; For vindictive is the
husband's wrath, he will have no pity on the day of
vengeance; He will not consider any restitution, nor be
satisfied with the greatest gifts. [PROV 6:32-35]
Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from
death. [PROV 11:4]
The desire of the just ends only in good; the expectation of
the wicked is wrath. [PROV 11:23]
The king favors the intelligent servant, but the worthless one
incurs his wrath. [PROV 14:35]
A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. [PROV
15:1]
The king's wrath is like messengers of death, but a wise man
can pacify it. [PROV 16:14]
The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor,
like dew on the grass. [PROV 19:12]
A secret gift allays anger, and a concealed present, violent
wrath. [PROV 21:14]
Be not friendly with a hotheaded man, nor the companion of a wrathful man, Lest you learn his ways, and get yourself into a snare.
[PROV 22:24-25]
Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles, let not your heart exult,
Lest the LORD see it, be displeased with you, and withdraw his wrath from your enemy. [PROV 24:17-18]
Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming - but before
jealousy who can stand? [PROV 27:4]
All the days of his life are passed in gloom and sorrow, under
great vexation, sickness and wrath. [ECCL 5:16]
Therefore shall they receive the splendid crown, the
beauteous diadem, from the hand of the LORD- For he shall
shelter them with his right hand, and protect them with his
arm. He shall take his zeal for armor and he shall arm
creation to requite the enemy; He shall don justice for a
breastplate and shall wear sure judgment for a helmet; He
shall take invincible rectitude as a shield and whet his sudden
anger for a sword, And the universe shall war with him
against the foolhardy. Well-aimed shafts of lightnings shall go
forth and from the clouds as from a well-drawn bow shall leap
to the mark; and as from his sling, wrathful hailstones shall
be hurled. The water of the sea shall be enraged against
them and the streams shall abruptly overflow; A mighty wind
shall confront them and a tempest winnow them out; Thus
lawlessness shall lay the whole earth waste and evildoing overturn
the thrones of potentates. [WISDOM 5:16-23]
But when the unjust man withdrew from [wisdom] in his anger, he perished through his fratricidal wrath. When on his account the earth was flooded, Wisdom again saved it, piloting the just man on frailest wood. [Taken from WISDOM 10:3-4]
For not without means was your almighty hand, that had
fashioned the universe from formless matter, to send upon
them a drove of bears or fierce lions, Or new-created, wrathful,
unknown beasts to breathe forth fiery breath, Or pour
out roaring smoke, or flash terrible sparks from their eyes.
Not only could these attack and completely destroy them; even
their frightful appearance itself could slay. [WISDOM 11:17-19]
But the trial of death touched at one time even the
just, and in the desert a plague struck the
multitude; Yet not for long did the anger last. For the
blameless man hastened to be their champion, bearing the
weapon of his special office, prayer and the propitiation of
incense; He withstood the wrath and put a stop to the
calamity, showing that he was your servant. And he overcame the
bitterness not by bodily strength, not by force of arms; But
by word he overcame the smiter, recalling the sworn covenants
with their fathers.
[WISDOM 18:20-22]
Of forgiveness be not overconfident, adding sin upon sin. Say not: "Great is his mercy; my many sins he will forgive." For mercy and anger alike are with him; upon the wicked alights his wrath.
[SIRACH 5:5-7]
Delay not your conversion to the LORD, put it not off from day to day; For suddenly his wrath flames forth; at the time of vengeance, you will be destroyed. Rely not upon deceitful wealth, for it will be no help on the day of wrath. [SIRACH 5:8-10]
Do not esteem yourself better than your fellows; remember, his wrath will not delay. More and more, humble your pride; what awaits man is worms.
[SIRACH 7:16-17]
Against a sinful band fire is enkindled, upon a godless
people wrath flames out. He forgave not the leaders of
old who rebelled long ago in their might; He spared not the
neighbors of Lot whom he detested for their pride; Nor did he
spare the doomed people who were uprooted because of their
sin; Nor the six hundred thousand foot soldiers who perished
for the impiety of their hearts. And had there been but one
stiffnecked man, it were a wonder had he gone
unpunished. For mercy and anger alike are with him who
remits and forgives, though on the wicked alights his wrath.
Great as his mercy is his punishment; he judges men, each
according to his deeds. A criminal does not escape with his
plunder; a just man's hope God does not leave unfulfilled.
Whoever does good has his reward, which each receives according to
his deeds. [SIRACH 16:6-14]
Before making a vow have the means to fulfill it; be not one who tries the LORD. Think of wrath and the day of death, the time of vengeance when he will hide his face.
[SIRACH 18:23-24]
Two types of men multiply sins, a third draws down
wrath; For burning passion is a blazing fire, not to be
quenched till it burns itself out: A man given to sins of the
flesh, who never stops until the fire breaks forth; The rake
to whom all bread is sweet and who is never through till he
dies; And the man who dishonors his marriage bed and says to
himself "Who can see me? Darkness surrounds me, walls
hide me; no one sees me; why should I fear to
sin?" Of the Most High he is not mindful, fearing only
the eyes of men; He does not understand that the eyes of the
LORD, ten thousand times brighter than the sun, Observe
every step a man takes and peer into hidden corners. He who
knows all things before they exist still knows them all after
they are made. [SIRACH 23:16-20]
Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them
tight. [SIRACH 27:30]
The vengeful will suffer the LORD'S vengeance, for he
remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor's
injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be
forgiven. Should a man nourish anger against his fellows and
expect healing from the LORD? Should a man refuse mercy to his
fellows, yet seek pardon for his own sins? If he who is but
flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember
your last days, set enmity aside; remember death and decay,
and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your
neighbor; of the Most High's covenant, and overlook faults.
[SIRACH 28:1-7]
The more wood, the greater the fire, the more underlying it,
the fiercer the fight; The greater a man's strength, the sterner
his anger, the greater his power, the greater his wrath. [SIRACH
28:10]
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not as many as by the tongue. Happy he who is sheltered from it, and has not endured its wrath; Who has not borne its yoke nor been fettered with its chain; For its yoke is a yoke of iron and its chains are chains of bronze! [SIRACH 28:18-20]
Raise your hand against the heathen, that they may realize
your power. As you have used us to show them your
holiness, so now use them to show us your glory. Thus they
will know, as we know, that there is no God but you. Give new
signs and work new wonders; show forth the splendor of your right
hand and arm; Rouse your anger, pour out wrath, humble the
enemy, scatter the foe. [SIRACH 36:2-6]
Again, his wrath expels the nations and turns fertile land
into a salt marsh. For the virtuous his paths are level, to
the haughty they are steep; Good things for the good he provided
from the beginning, but for the wicked good things and bad.
[SIRACH 39:23-25]
A great anxiety has God allotted, and a heavy yoke, to the
sons of men; From the day one leaves his mother's
womb to the day he returns to the mother of all the living,
His thoughts, the fear in his heart, and his troubled
forebodings till the day he dies - Whether he sits on a lofty
throne or grovels in dust and ashes, Whether he bears a
splendid crown or is wrapped in the coarsest of cloaks - Are
of wrath and envy, trouble and dread, terror of death, fury
and strife. Even when he lies on his bed to rest, his cares
at night disturb his sleep. So short is his rest it seems like
none, till in his dreams he struggles as he did by
day, Terrified by what his mind's eye sees, like a fugitive
being pursued; As he reaches safety, he wakes up astonished that
there was nothing to fear. So it is with all flesh, with man and
with beast, but for sinners seven times more. Plague and
bloodshed, wrath and the sword, plunder and ruin, famine and
death: For the wicked, these were created evil, and it is
they who bring on destruction. All that is of earth returns to
earth, and what is from above returns above. [SIRACH 40:1-11]
He gave to him his laws, and authority to prescribe and to
judge: To teach the precepts to his people, and the
ritual to the descendants of Israel. Men of other families were
inflamed against him, were jealous of him in the
desert, The followers of Dathan and Abiram, and the band
of Korah in their defiance. But the LORD saw this and became
angry, he destroyed them in his burning wrath. He
brought down upon them a miracle, and consumed them with his
flaming fire. Then he increased the glory of Aaron and
bestowed upon him his inheritance: The sacred offerings he
allotted to him, with the showbread as his portion; The
oblations of the LORD are his food, a gift to him and his
descendants. [SIRACH 45:17-21]
You were called by that glorious name which was conferred
upon Israel. Gold you gathered like so much iron, you
heaped up silver as though it were lead; But you abandoned
yourself to women and gave them dominion over your body. You
brought dishonor upon your reputation, shame upon your
marriage, Wrath upon your descendants, and groaning upon
your domain; Thus two governments came into being, when in
Ephraim kingship was usurped. But God does not withdraw his
mercy, nor permit even one of his promises to fail. He
does not uproot the posterity of his chosen one, nor destroy
the offspring of his friend. So he gave to Jacob a
remnant, to David a root from his own family. [SIRACH
47:18-22]
How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to
yours? You brought a dead man back to life from the nether
world, by the will of the LORD. You sent kings down to
destruction, and nobles, from their beds of sickness. You
heard threats at Sinai, at Horeb avenging judgments. You
anointed kings who should inflict vengeance, and a prophet as
your successor. You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a
chariot with fiery horses. You are destined, it is written, in
time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the
LORD, To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their
sons, and to reestablish the tribes of Jacob. [SIRACH 48:4-10]
Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry
grass shrivels in the flame, Even so their root shall become
rotten and their blossom scatter like dust; For they
have spurned the law of the LORD of hosts, and scorned the
word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore the wrath of the LORD
blazes against his people, he raises his hand to strike
them; When the mountains quake, their corpses shall be
like refuse in the streets. For all this, his wrath is not
turned back, and his hand is still outstretched. [ISA 5:24-25]
The Lord has sent word against Jacob, it falls upon
Israel; And all the people know it, Ephraim and those who
dwell in Samaria, those who say in arrogance and pride of
heart, "Bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut
stone; Sycamores are felled, but we will replace them
with cedars." But the LORD raises up their foes against them
and stirs up their enemies to action: Aram on the east and the
Philistines on the west devour Israel with open
mouth. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, and
his hand is still outstretched! The people do not turn to him who
struck them, nor seek the LORD of hosts. So the LORD severs
from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day.
(The elder and the noble are the head, the prophet who
teaches falsehood is the tail.) The leaders of this people mislead
them and those to be led are engulfed. For this reason, the
Lord does not spare their young men, and their orphans and
widows he does not pity; They are wholly profaned and sinful,
and every mouth gives vent to folly. For all this, his wrath
is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched! For
wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and
thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns
of smoke. At the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land
quakes, and the people are like fuel for fire; No man
spares his brother... Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim
Manasseh; together they turn on Judah. For all this, his
wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched! [ISA 9:7-18,20]
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write
oppressive decrees, Depriving the needy of judgment and
robbing my people's poor of their rights, Making widows their
plunder, and orphans their prey! What will you do on the day
of punishment, when ruin comes from afar? To whom will
you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth, Lest it
sink beneath the captive or fall beneath the slain? For
all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still
outstretched! [ISA 10:1-4]
Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath. Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people
under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and
tread them down like the mud of the streets. [ISA 10:5-6]
Yes, the destruction he has decreed, the Lord, the GOD of
hosts, will carry out within the whole land. Therefore thus says
the Lord, the GOD of hosts: O my people, who dwell in Zion, do not
fear the Assyrian, though he strikes you with a rod, and raises
his staff against you. For only a brief moment more, and my anger
shall be over; but them I will destroy in wrath. Then the LORD of
hosts will raise against them a scourge such as struck Midian at
the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he
did against Egypt. On that day, His burden shall be taken
from your shoulder, and his yoke shattered from your
neck. He has come up from the direction of Rimmon, he has
reached Aiath, passed through Migron, at Michmash his
supplies are stored. [ISA 10:23-28]
Listen! the rumble on the mountains: that of an immense
throng! Listen! the noise of kingdoms, nations assembled! The
LORD of hosts is mustering an army for battle. They come from
a far-off country, and from the end of the heavens, The
LORD and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy all the
land. Howl, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction
from the Almighty it comes. Therefore all hands fall
helpless, the bows of the young men fall from their
hands. Every man's heart melts in terror. Pangs and
sorrows take hold of them, like a woman in labor they
writhe; They look aghast at each other, their faces
aflame. Lo, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and
burning anger; To lay waste the land and destroy the
sinners within it! The stars and constellations of the
heavens send forth no light; The sun is dark when it
rises, and the light of the moon does not shine. Thus I will
punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their
guilt. I will put an end to the pride of the
arrogant, the insolence of tyrants I will humble. I will make
mortals more rare than pure gold, men, than gold of Ophir.
For this I will make the heavens tremble and the earth shall
be shaken from its place, At the wrath of the LORD of
hosts on the day of his burning anger.
[ISA 13:4-13]
The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of
the tyrants That struck the peoples in wrath relentless
blows; That beat down the nations in anger, with
oppression unchecked. The whole earth rests peacefully, song
breaks forth; The very cypresses rejoice over you, and the
cedars of Lebanon: "Now that you are laid to
rest, there will be none to cut us down." [ISA 14:5-8]
Go, my people, enter your chambers, and close your doors
behind you; Hide yourselves for a brief moment, until
the wrath is past. See, the LORD goes forth from his
place, to punish the wickedness of the earth's
inhabitants; The earth will reveal the blood upon
her, and no longer conceal her slain. [ISA 26:20-21]
See the name of the LORD coming from afar in burning
wrath, with lowering clouds! His lips are filled with
fury, his tongue is like a consuming fire; His breath, like a
flood in a ravine that reaches suddenly to the
neck, Will winnow the nations with a destructive
winnowing, and with repeated winnowings will he battle
against them (and a bridle on the jaws of the peoples to send
them astray). The LORD will make his glorious voice
heard, and let it be seen how his arm descends In raging
fury and flame of consuming fire, in driving storm and hail. [ISA 30:27-30]
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