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Come near, O nations, and hear; be attentive, O
peoples! Let the earth and what fills it listen, the
world and all it produces. The LORD is angry with all the
nations and is wrathful against all their host; he has
doomed them and given them over to slaughter. [ISA 34:1-2]
Who was it that gave Jacob to be plundered, Israel to the
despoilers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have
sinned? In his ways they refused to walk, his law they
disobeyed. So he poured out wrath upon them, his anger, and
the fury of battle; It blazed round about them, yet they did
not realize, it burned them, but they took it not to heart. [ISA 42:24-25]
Awake, awake! Arise, O Jerusalem, You who drank at
the LORD'S hand the cup of his wrath; Who drained to the
dregs the bowl of staggering! She has no one to guide
her of all the sons she bore; She has no one to grasp her by
the hand, of all the sons she reared! - Your misfortunes are
double; who is there to condole with you? Desolation and
destruction, famine and sword! Who is there to comfort you?
Your sons lie helpless... They are filled with the wrath of
the LORD, the rebuke of your God. But now, hear this, O
afflicted one, drunk, but not with wine, Thus says the LORD,
your Master, your God, who defends his people: See, I am
taking from your hand the cup of staggering; The bowl of my
wrath you shall no longer drink. I will put it into the hands
of your tormentors, those who ordered you to bow down,
that they might walk over you, While you offered your back
like the ground, like the street for them to walk on. [Taken from ISA 51:17-23]
The LORD calls you back, like a wife forsaken and grieved
in spirit, A wife married in youth and then cast off, says
your God. For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great
tenderness I will take you back. In an outburst of wrath, for a
moment I hid my face from you; But with enduring love I take
pity on you, says the LORD, your redeemer. [ISA 54:6-8]
I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For
their spirits would faint before me, the souls that I have
made. Because of their wicked avarice I was angry, and struck
them, hiding myself in wrath, as they went their own
rebellious way. I saw their ways, but I will heal them and
lead them; I will give full comfort to them and to those
who mourn for them, I, the Creator, who gave them
life. Peace, peace to the far and the near, says the
LORD; and I will heal them. But the wicked are like the tossing
sea which cannot be calmed, And its waters cast up mud
and filth. No peace for the wicked! says my God. [ISA 57:16-21]
Honesty is lacking, and the man who turns from evil is
despoiled. The LORD saw this, and was aggrieved that right
did not exist. He saw that there was no one, and was appalled
that there was none to intervene; So his own arm brought
about the victory, and his justice lent him its support. He
put on justice as his breastplate, salvation, as the helmet
on his head; He clothed himself with garments of
vengeance, wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal. He repays his
enemies their deserts, and requites his foes with wrath. [ISA 59:15-18]
Foreigners shall rebuild your walls, and their kings shall be
your attendants; Though I struck you in my wrath, yet in my good
will I have shown you mercy. [ISA 60:10]
Who is this that comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments,
from Bozrah - This one arrayed in majesty, marching in
the greatness of his strength? "It is I, I who announce
vindication, I who am mighty to save." Why is your
apparel red, and your garments like those of the wine
presser? "The wine press I have trodden alone, and of my
people there was no one with me. I trod them in my
anger, and trampled them down in my wrath; Their blood
spurted on my garments; all my apparel I stained. For the day of
vengeance was in my heart, my year for redeeming was at hand.
I looked about, but there was no one to help, I was appalled
that there was no one to lend support; So my own arm brought
about the victory and my own wrath lent me its support. I
trampled down the peoples in my anger, I crushed them in my
wrath, and I let their blood run out upon the ground." [ISA 63:1-6]
People who provoke me continually, to my
face, Offering sacrifices in the groves and burning
incense on bricks, Living among the graves and spending the night
in caverns, Eating [unclean food]... Crying out, "Hold
back, do not touch me; I am too sacred for you!" These
things enkindle my wrath, a fire that burns all the day. Lo,
before me it stands written; I will not be quiet until I have
paid in full Your crimes and the crimes of your fathers as
well, says the LORD. Since they burned incense on the
mountains, and disgraced me on the hills, I will at once
pour out in full measure their recompense into their laps. [Taken from ISA 65:3-7]
For thus says the LORD: Lo, I will spread prosperity over
her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an
overflowing torrent. As nurslings, you shall be carried in
her arms, and fondled in her lap; As a mother comforts her
son, so will I comfort you; in Jerusalem you shall find
your comfort. When you see this, your heart shall
rejoice, and your bodies flourish like the grass; The
LORD'S power shall be known to his servants, but to his
enemies, his wrath. Lo, the LORD shall come in fire, his
chariots like the whirlwind, To wreak his wrath with burning
heat and his punishment with fiery flames. For the LORD shall
judge all mankind by fire and sword. and many shall be
slain by the LORD. [ISA 66:12-16]
"Will he keep his wrath forever, will he hold his grudge
to the end?" This is what you say; yet you do all the evil
you can. [JER 3:5]
Go, proclaim these words toward the north, and
say: Return, rebel Israel, says the LORD, I will not
remain angry with you; For I am merciful, says the
LORD, I will not continue my wrath forever. Only know your
guilt: how you rebelled against the LORD, your God, How you
ran hither and yon to strangers (under every green tree) and
would not listen to my voice, says the LORD. Return, rebellious
children, says the LORD, for I am your Master; I will
take you, one from a city, two from a clan, and bring you to
Zion. I will appoint over you shepherds after my own
heart, who will shepherd you wisely and prudently. [JER 3:12-15]
So gird yourselves with sackcloth, mourn and wail: "The blazing
wrath of the LORD is not turned away from us." In that day, says the LORD, The king will lose heart, and the princes; the priests will be amazed, and the prophets stunned. [JER 4:8-9]
Fools my people are, they know me not; Senseless
children they are, having no understanding; They are
wise in evil, but know not how to do good. I looked at the
earth, and it was waste and void; at the heavens, and their
light had gone out! I looked at the mountains, and they were
trembling, and all the hills were crumbling! I looked and
behold, there was no man; even the birds of the air had flown
away! I looked and behold, the garden land was a desert, with
all its cities destroyed before the LORD, before his blazing
wrath. For thus says the LORD: Waste shall the whole land
be; I will (not) wholly destroy it. Because of this the earth
shall mourn, the heavens above shall darken; I have
spoken, I will not repent, I have resolved, I will not turn
back. [JER 4:22-28]
To whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be
heard? See! their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot
give heed; See, the word of the LORD has become for
them an object of scorn, which they will not have. Therefore
my wrath brims up within me, I am weary of holding it
in; I will pour it out upon the child in the
street, upon the young men gathered together. Yes, all
will be taken, husband and wife, graybeard with ancient. [JER 6:10-11]
See now, says the Lord GOD, my anger and my wrath will pour out
upon this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field
and the fruits of the earth; it will burn without being quenched.
[JER 7:20]
From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to
this day, I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets.
Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed; they have stiffened
their necks and done worse than their fathers. When you speak all
these words to them, they will not listen to you either; when you
call to them, they will not answer you. Say to them: This is the
nation which does not listen to the voice of the LORD, its God, or
take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is
banished from their speech. Cut off your dedicated hair and throw
it away! on the heights intone an elegy; For the LORD
has rejected and cast off the generation that draws down his
wrath. [JER 7:25-29]
The LORD is true God, he is the living God, the eternal
King, Before whose anger the earth quakes, whose wrath
the nations cannot endure: He who made the earth by his
power, established the world by his wisdom, and
stretched out the heavens by his skill. When he thunders, the
waters in the heavens roar, and he brings up clouds from the
end of the earth; He makes the lightning flash in the rain,
and releases storm winds from their chambers. [JER 10:10,12-13]
Punish us, O LORD, but with equity, not in anger, lest you
have us dwindle away. Pour out your wrath on the nations that know
you not, on the tribes that call not upon your name; For
they have devoured Jacob utterly, and laid waste his
dwelling. [JER 10:24-25]
The sin of Judah is written with an iron
stylus, Engraved with a diamond point upon the tablets
of their hearts. (And the horns of their altars, when their
sons remember their altars and their sacred poles, beside the
green trees, on the high hills, the peaks in the
highland.) Your wealth and all your treasures I will
give as spoil. In recompense for all your
sins throughout your borders, You will relinquish your hold
on your heritage which I have given you. I will enslave
you to your enemies in a land that you know not: For a
fire has been kindled by my wrath that will burn forever.
[JER 17:1-4]
Heed me, O LORD, and listen to what my adversaries say.
Must good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to
take my life? Remember that I stood before you to speak
in their behalf, to turn away your wrath from them. So now,
deliver their children to famine, do away with them by the
sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let
their men die of pestilence, their young men be slain by the
sword in battle. [JER 18:19-21]
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I will turn back in your
hands the weapons with which you intend to fight the king of
Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the walls. These
weapons I will pile up in the midst of this city, and I myself
will fight against you with outstretched hand and mighty arm, in
anger, and wrath, and great rage! [JER 21:4-5]
See, the storm of the LORD! His wrath breaks forth In
a whirling storm that bursts upon the heads of the wicked.
The anger of the LORD shall not abate until he has done and
fulfilled what he has determined in his heart. When the
time comes, you shall fully understand. [JER 23:19-20]
The lion leaves his lair, and their land is made desolate By
the sweeping sword, by the burning wrath of the LORD. [JER 25:38]
See, the storm of the LORD! His wrath breaks forth In
a whirling storm that bursts upon the heads of the wicked.
The anger of the LORD will not abate until he has done and
fulfilled what he has determined in his heart. When the
time comes, you will fully understand. [JER 30:23-24]
The Israelites and the Judeans from their youth have done only
what is evil in my eyes; the Israelites did nothing but provoke me
with the works of their hands, says the LORD. From the day it was
built to this day, this city has excited my anger and wrath, so
that I must put it out of my sight for all the wickedness the
Israelites and Judeans, with their kings and their princes, their
priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the citizens of
Jerusalem, have done to provoke me. They turned their backs to me,
not their faces; though I kept teaching them, they would not
listen to my correction. They defiled the house named after me by
the horrid idols they set up in it. Now, therefore, thus says the
LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, which as you say is
handed over to the king of Babylon amid sword, famine, and
pestilence: Behold, I will gather them together from all the lands
to which in anger, wrath, and great rage I banish them; I will
bring them back to this place and settle them here in safety. They
shall be my people, and I will be their God. One heart and one way
I will give them, that they may fear me always, to their own good
and that of their children after them. I will make with them an
eternal covenant, never to cease doing good to them; into their
hearts I will put the fear of me, that they may never depart from
me. I will take delight in doing good to them: I will replant them
firmly in this land, with all my heart and soul. For thus says the
LORD: Just as I brought upon this people all this great evil, so I
will bring upon them all the good I promise them. [JER 32:30-34,36-42]
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of
this city and the palaces of Judah's kings, which are being
destroyed in the face of siegeworks and the sword: men come to
battle the Chaldeans, and these houses will be filled with the
corpses of those whom I slay in my anger and wrath, when I hide my
face from this city for all their wickedness. Behold, I will treat
and assuage the city's wounds; I will heal them, and reveal to
them an abundance of lasting peace. [JER 33:4-6]
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow
of Elam, the mainstay of their might. I will bring upon Elam
the four winds from the four ends of the heavens: I will
scatter them to all these winds, till there is no nation to
which the outcasts of Elam shall not come. I will break Elam
before their foes, before those who seek their life; I
will bring evil upon them, my burning wrath, says the
LORD. I will send the sword to pursue them until I have
completely made an end of them; My throne I will set up in
Elam and destroy from there king and princes, says the
LORD. But in the days to come I will change the lot of Elam,
says the LORD. [JER 49:35-39]
Your mother shall be sorely put to shame, she that bore
you shall be abashed; See, the last of the nations, a
desert, dry and waste. Because of the LORD'S wrath she shall be
empty, and become a total desert; Everyone who passes by
Babylon will be appalled and catch his breath, at all her
wounds. [JER 50:12-13]
You ensnared yourself, and were caught, O Babylon, before
you knew it! You were discovered and seized, because you
challenged the LORD. The LORD opens his armory and brings
forth the weapons of his wrath; For the Lord GOD of hosts has
work to do in the land of the Chaldeans. Come upon her from
every side, open her granaries, Pile up her goods in
heaps and doom it, leave not a remnant. [JER 50:24-26]
I will punish Bel in Babylon, and make him disgorge what
he swallowed; peoples shall stream to him no more. The wall
of Babylon falls! Leave her, my people, let each one save
himself from the burning wrath of the LORD. [JER 51:44-45]
"Come, all you who pass by the way, look and see Whether
there is any suffering like my suffering, which has been dealt me
When the LORD afflicted me on the day of his blazing wrath." [LAM
1:12]
How the Lord in his wrath has detested daughter
Zion! He has cast down from heaven to earth the glory of
Israel, Unmindful of his footstool on the day of his
wrath. The Lord has consumed without pity all the dwellings
of Jacob; He has torn down in his anger the fortresses
of daughter Judah; He has brought to the ground in
dishonor her king and her princes. He broke off, in fiery
wrath, the horn that was Israel's whole strength; He
withheld the support of his right hand when the enemy
approached; He blazed up in Jacob like a flaming
fire devouring all about it. Like an enemy he made taut his
bow; with his arrows in his right hand He took his stand
as a foe, and slew all on whom the eye doted; Over the
tent of daughter Zion he poured out his wrath like fire. The Lord
has become an enemy, he has consumed Israel: Consumed
all her castles and destroyed her fortresses; For
daughter Judah he has multiplied moaning and groaning. He has
demolished his shelter like a garden booth, he has destroyed
his dwelling; In Zion the LORD has made feast and
sabbath to be forgotten; He has scorned in fierce
wrath both king and priest. The Lord has disowned his
altar, rejected his sanctuary; The walls of her
towers he has handed over to the enemy, Who shout in the
house of the LORD as on a feast day. The LORD marked for
destruction the wall of daughter Zion: He stretched out
the measuring line; his hand brought ruin, yet he did not
relent - He brought grief on wall and rampart till both
succumbed. [LAM 2:1-8]
"Dead in the dust of the streets lie young and old; My
maidens and young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain on
the day of your wrath, slaughtered without pity. You summoned as for a feast day terrors against me from
all sides; There was not, on the day of your wrath, either
fugitive or survivor; Those whom I bore and reared my enemy has
utterly destroyed." [LAM 2:21-22]
We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven us. You
veiled yourself in wrath and pursued us, you slew us and took
no pity; You wrapped yourself in a cloud which prayer could
not pierce. [LAM 3:42-44]
You see, O LORD, how I am wronged; do me justice! You see
all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me. You
hear their insults, O LORD, (all their plots against me), The
whispered murmurings of my foes, against me all the day;
Whether they sit or stand, see, I am their taunt song.
Requite them as they deserve, O LORD, according to their
deeds; Give them hardness of heart, as your curse upon them;
Pursue them in wrath and destroy them from under your
heavens! [LAM 3:59-66]
The LORD has spent his anger, poured out his blazing wrath; He
has kindled a fire in Zion that has consumed her foundations. [LAM
4:11]
You, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your throne stands
from age to age. Why, then, should you forget us, abandon us
so long a time? Lead us back to you, O LORD, that we may be
restored: give us anew such days as we had of old. For now
you have indeed rejected us, and in full measure turned your
wrath against us.
[LAM 5:19-22]
"Pray for us also to the LORD, our God; for we have sinned
against the LORD, our God, and the wrath and anger of the LORD
have not yet been withdrawn from us at the present day." [BARUCH
1:13]
You have brought your wrath and anger down upon us, as you had
warned us through your servants the prophets: 'Thus says the LORD:
Bend your shoulders to the service of the king of Babylon, that
you may continue in the land I gave your fathers: for if you do
not hear the LORD'S voice so as to serve the king of Babylon, I
will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the
streets of Jerusalem The sounds of joy and the sounds of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of
the bride; And all the land shall be deserted, without
inhabitants.' But we did not heed your voice, or serve the king of
Babylon, and you fulfilled the threats you had made through your
servants the prophets, to have the bones of our kings and the
bones of our fathers brought out from their burial places. And
indeed, they lie exposed to the heat of day and the frost of
night. They died in dire anguish, by hunger and the sword and
plague. And you reduced the house which bears your name to what it
is today, for the wickedness of the kingdom of Israel and the
kingdom of Judah. [BARUCH 2:20-26]
See, the day of the LORD! See, the end is coming! Lawlessness
is in full bloom, insolence flourishes, violence has risen to
support wickedness. It shall not be long in coming, nor shall it
delay. The time has come, the day dawns. Let not the buyer rejoice
nor the seller mourn, for wrath shall be upon all the throng. The
seller shall not regain what he sold as long as he lives, for
wrath shall be upon all the throng. Because of his sins, no one
shall preserve his life. They shall sound the trumpet and make
everything ready, yet no one shall go to war, for my wrath is upon
all the throng. [EZEK 7:10-14]
They shall fling their silver into the streets, and their gold
shall be considered refuse. Their silver and gold cannot save them
on the day of the LORD'S wrath. They shall not be allowed to
satisfy their craving or fill their bellies, for this has been the
occasion of their sin. [EZEK 7:19]
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: In my fury I will let loose storm winds;
because of my anger there shall be a flooding rain, and hailstones
shall fall with destructive wrath. I will tear down the wall that
you have whitewashed and level it to the ground, laying bare its
foundations. When it falls, you shall be crushed beneath it; thus
you shall know that I am the LORD. When I have spent my fury on
the wall and its whitewashers, I tell you there shall be no wall,
nor shall there be whitewashers - those prophets of Israel who
prophesied to Jerusalem and saw for it visions of peace when there
was no peace, says the Lord GOD. [EZEK 13:13-16]
As I live, says the Lord GOD, with a mighty hand and
outstretched arm, with poured-out wrath, I swear I will be king
over you! With a mighty hand and outstretched arm, with poured-out
wrath, I will bring you out from the nations and gather you from
the countries over which you are scattered; then I will lead you
to the desert of the peoples, where I will enter into judgment
with you face to face. Just as I entered into judgment with your
fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into
judgment with you, says the Lord GOD. I will count you with the
staff and bring back but a small number. I will separate from you
those who have rebelled and transgressed against me; from the land
where they sojourned as aliens I will bring them out, but they
shall not return to the land of Israel. Thus you shall know that I
am the LORD. [EZEK 20:33-38]
I will pour out my indignation upon you, breathing my fiery wrath upon you, I will hand you over to ravaging men, artisans of destruction.
You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land. You shall not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.
[EZEK 21:36-37]
See, I am brushing one hand against the other because of the
unjust profits you have made and because of the blood shed in your
midst. Can your heart remain firm, will your hands be strong, in
the days when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I
will act. I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you
over foreign lands, so that I may purge your uncleanness. In you I
will allow myself to be profaned in the eyes of the nations; thus
you shall know that I am the LORD. Thus the word of the LORD came
to me: Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross for me.
All of them are bronze and tin, iron and lead (in the midst of a
furnace): dross from silver have they become. Therefore thus says
the Lord GOD: Because all of you have become dross, therefore I
must gather you together within Jerusalem. Just as silver, bronze,
iron, lead, and tin are gathered into a furnace and smelted in the
roaring flames, so I will gather you together in my furious wrath,
put you in, and smelt you. When I have assembled you, I will blast
you with the fire of my anger and smelt you with it. You shall be
smelted by it just as silver is smelted in a furnace. Thus you
shall know that I, the LORD, have poured out my fury on you. [EZEK 22:13-22]
The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;
they afflict the poor and the needy, and oppress the resident
alien without justice. Thus I have searched among them for someone
who could build a wall or stand in the breach before me to keep me
from destroying the land; but I found no one. Therefore I have
poured out my fury upon them; with my fiery wrath I have consumed
them; I have brought down their conduct upon their heads, says the
Lord GOD. [EZEK 22:29-31]
To work up my wrath, to excite my vengeance, she put her blood
on the bare rock, not to be covered. [EZEK 24:8]
I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, Egypt's stronghold, and
cut down the crowds in Memphis. [EZEK 30:15]
But on that day, the day when Gog invades the land of Israel,
says the Lord GOD, my fury shall be aroused. In my anger and in my
jealousy, in my fiery wrath, I swear: On that day there shall be a
great shaking upon the land of Israel. Before me shall tremble the
fish of the sea and the birds of the air, the beasts of the field
and all the reptiles that crawl upon the ground, and all men who
are on the land. Mountains shall be overturned, and cliffs shall
tumble, and every wall shall fall to the ground. Against him I
will summon every terror, says the Lord GOD, every man's sword
against his brother. I will hold judgment with him in pestilence
and bloodshed; flooding rain and hailstones, fire and brimstone, I
will rain upon him, upon his troops, and upon the many peoples
with him. I will prove my greatness and holiness and make myself
known in the sight of many nations; thus they shall know that I am
the LORD. [EZEK 38:18-23]
The voice said to me: Son of man, this is where my throne shall
be, this is where I will set the soles of my feet; here I will
dwell among the Israelites forever. Never again shall they and
their kings profane my holy name with their harlotries and with
the corpses of their kings (their high places). When they placed
their threshold against my threshold and their doorpost next to
mine, so that only a wall was between us, they profaned my holy
name by their abominable deeds; therefore I consumed them in my
wrath. From now on they shall put far from me their harlotry and
the corpses of their kings, and I will dwell in their midst
forever. [EZEK 43:7-9]
"I will show you," he said, "what is to happen
later in the period of wrath; for at the appointed time, there
will be an end." [DAN 8:19]
"O Lord, in keeping with all your just deeds, let your
anger and your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your
holy mountain. On account of our sins and the crimes of our
fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become the reproach of all
our neighbors. Hear, therefore, O God, the prayer and petition of
your servant; and for your own sake, O Lord, let your face shine
upon your desolate sanctuary. Give ear, O my God, and listen; open
your eyes and see our ruins and the city which bears your name.
When we present our petition before you, we rely not on our just
deeds, but on your great mercy. O Lord, hear! O Lord, pardon! O
Lord, be attentive and act without delay, for your own sake, O my
God, because this city and your people bear your name!" [DAN 9:16-19]
"The king shall do as he pleases, exalting himself and
making himself greater than any god; he shall utter dreadful
blasphemies against the God of gods. He shall prosper only till
divine wrath is ready, for what is determined must take place."
[DAN 11:36]
The princes of Judah have become like those that move a
boundary line; Upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
[HOSEA 5:10]
In their wickedness they regale the king, the princes too, with their deceits. They are all kindled to wrath like a blazing oven, Whose fire the baker desists from stirring once the dough is kneaded until it has risen. [HOSEA 7:3-4]
The men of Israel have thrown away what is good; the enemy
shall pursue them. They made kings, but not by my
authority; they established princes, but without my
approval. With their silver and gold they made idols for
themselves, to their own destruction. Cast away your calf, O
Samaria! my wrath is kindled against them; How long will
they be unable to attain innocence in Israel? [HOSEA 8:3-5]
Your destruction, O Israel! who is there to help you?
Where now is your king, that he may rescue you in all your
cities? And your rulers, of whom you said, "Give me
a king and princes"? I give you a king in my anger, and
I take him away in my wrath. The guilt of Israel is wrapped
up, his sin is stored away. [HOSEA 13:9-12]
Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have
collapsed through your guilt. I will heal their defection, I
will love them freely; for my wrath is turned away from them. I
will be like the dew for Israel: he shall blossom like the
lily; He shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar, and put
forth his shoots. His splendor shall be like the olive
tree and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar. [Taken from HOSEA 14:2,5-7]
Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Edom, and for
four, I will not revoke my word; Because he pursued his
brother with the sword, choking up all pity; Because he
persisted in his anger and kept his wrath to the end, I will
send fire upon Teman, and it will devour the castles of
Bozrah. [AMOS 1:11-12]
Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh, by decree of
the king and his nobles: "Neither man nor beast, neither
cattle nor sheep, shall taste anything; they shall not eat, nor
shall they drink water. Man and beast shall be covered with
sackcloth and call loudly to God; every man shall turn from his
evil way and from the violence he has in hand. Who knows, God may
relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, so that we
shall not perish." When God saw by their actions how they
turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had
threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out. [JONAH 3:7-10]
I will abolish your carved images and the sacred pillars
from your midst; And you shall no longer adore the works
of your hands. I will tear out the sacred poles from your
midst, and destroy your cities. I will wreak vengeance in
anger and wrath upon the nations that have not hearkened. [MICAH 5:12-14]
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy! though I have fallen, I
will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD is my light.
The wrath of the LORD I will endure because I have sinned
against him, Until he takes up my cause, and establishes
my right. He will bring me forth to the light; I will
see his justice. [MICAH 7:8-9]
A jealous and avenging God is the LORD, an avenger is the
LORD, and angry; The LORD brings vengeance on his
adversaries, and lays up wrath for his enemies; The LORD is
slow to anger, yet great in power, and the LORD never leaves
the guilty unpunished. In hurricane and tempest is his
path, and clouds are the dust at his feet; He rebukes the sea
and leaves it dry, and all the rivers he dries
up. Withered are Bashan and Carmel, and the bloom of
Lebanon fades; The mountains quake before him, and the hills
dissolve; The earth is laid waste before him, the world
and all who dwell in it. Before his wrath, who can stand
firm, and who can face his blazing anger? His fury is
poured out like fire, and the rocks are rent asunder before
him. The LORD is good, a refuge on the day of
distress; He takes care of those who have recourse to him,
when the flood rages; He makes an end of his
opponents, and his enemies he pursues with darkness. [NAHUM 1:2-8]
Woe to you who give your neighbors a flood of your wrath
to drink, and make them drunk, till their nakedness is seen! You
are filled with shame instead of glory; drink, you too, and
stagger! On you shall revert the cup from the LORD'S right
hand, and utter shame on your glory. [HAB 2:15-16]
O LORD, I have heard your renown, and feared, O LORD, your
work. In the course of the years revive it, in the course of the
years make it known; in your wrath remember compassion! [HAB 3:2]
Is your anger against the streams, O LORD? Is your wrath
against the streams, your rage against the sea, That you
drive the steeds of your victorious chariot? Bared and ready
is your bow, filled with arrows is your quiver. Into
streams you split the earth; at sight of you the mountains
tremble. A torrent of rain descends; the ocean gives
forth its roar. The sun forgets to rise, the moon remains in
its shelter, At the light of your flying arrows, at the
gleam of your flashing spear. In wrath you bestride the
earth, in fury you trample the nations. You come forth to
save your people, to save your anointed one. You crush
the heads of the wicked, you lay bare their bases at the
neck. [HAB 3:8-13]
Near is the great day of the LORD, near and very swiftly
coming, Hark, the day of the LORD! bitter, then, the
warrior's cry. A day of wrath is that day a day of anguish
and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, a day
of darkness and gloom, A day of thick black clouds, a day of
trumpet blasts and battle alarm Against fortified
cities, against battlements on high. I will hem men
in till they walk like the blind, because they have
sinned against the LORD; And their blood shall be poured out like
dust, and their brains like dung. Neither their silver nor
their gold shall be able to save them on the day of the
LORD'S wrath, When in the fire of his jealousy all the
earth shall be consumed. For he shall make an end, yes, a
sudden end, of all who live on the earth. [ZEPH 1:14-18]
I said, "Surely now you will fear me, you will accept
correction"; She should not fail to see all I have
visited upon her. Yet all the more eagerly have they
done all their corrupt deeds. Therefore, wait for me, says
the LORD, against the day when I arise as accuser; For
it is my decision to gather together the nations, to assemble
the kingdoms, In order to pour out upon them my wrath, all my
blazing anger; For in the fire of my jealousy shall all
the earth be consumed. For then I will change and purify the
lips of the peoples, That they all may call upon the name of
the LORD, to serve him with one accord; From beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia and as far as the recesses of the
North, they shall bring me offerings. [ZEPH 3:7-10]
This word of the LORD of hosts came: Thus says the LORD of
hosts: I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous
wrath for her. Thus says the LORD: I will return to
Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall
be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of
hosts, the holy mountain. [ZECH 8:1-3]
Thus says the LORD of hosts: As I determined to harm you when
your fathers provoked me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I
did not relent, so again in these days I have determined to favor
Jerusalem and the house of Judah; do not fear! These then are the
things you should do: Speak the truth to one another; let there be
honesty and peace in the judgments at your gates, and let none of
you plot evil against another in his heart, nor love a false oath.
For all these things I hate, says the LORD. [ZECH 8:14-17]
For the teraphim speak nonsense, the diviners have false
visions: Deceitful dreams they tell, empty comfort they
offer. This is why they wander like sheep, wretched:
they have no shepherd. My wrath is kindled against the
shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; For the LORD
of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, and
make them his stately war horse. [ZECH 10:2-3]
At that time Jerusalem, all Judea, and the whole region around
the Jordan were going out to [John] and were being baptized by him
in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins. When he saw
many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said
to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from
the coming wrath? Produce good fruit as evidence of your
repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have
Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God can raise up children
to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of
the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will
be cut down and thrown into the fire." [Taken from MT 3:5-10]
[John] said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
[Taken from LK 3:7-9]
"When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, know that
its desolation is at hand. Then those in Judea must flee to the
mountains. Let those within the city escape from it, and let those
in the countryside not enter the city, for these days are the time
of punishment when all the scriptures are fulfilled. Woe to
pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for a terrible
calamity will come upon the earth and a wrathful judgment upon
this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken
as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled
underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are
fulfilled." [LK 21:20-24]
[Jesus said,] "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever
disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains
upon him." [Taken from JN 3:36]
The wrath of God is indeed being revealed from heaven against
every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by
their wickedness. For what can be known about God is evident to
them, because God made it evident to them. Ever since the creation
of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and
divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he
has made. As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew
God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks.
Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless
minds were darkened. While claiming to be wise, they became fools
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an
image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of
snakes. Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the
lusts of their hearts for the mutual degradation of their bodies.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and
worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed
forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading
passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and
burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with
males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for
their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is
improper. They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil,
greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and
spite. They are gossips and scandalmongers and they hate God. They
are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness,
and rebellious toward their parents. They are senseless,
faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know the just decree
of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not
only do them but give approval to those who practice them. [ROM 1:18-32]
Therefore, you are without excuse, every one of you who passes
judgment. For by the standard by which you judge another you
condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the very same things.
We know that the judgment of God on those who do such things is
true. Do you suppose, then, you who judge those who engage in such
things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment
of God? Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and
patience in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God would
lead you to repentance? By your stubbornness and impenitent heart,
you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and
revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone
according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory,
honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but
wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey
wickedness. Yes, affliction and distress will come upon every
human being who does evil, Jew first and then Greek. But there
will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, Jew
first and then Greek. There is no partiality with God. [ROM 2:1-11]
What advantage is there then in being a Jew? Or what is the
value of circumcision? Much, in every respect. (For) in the first
place, they were entrusted with the utterances of God. What if
some were unfaithful? Will their infidelity nullify the fidelity
of God? Of course not! God must be true, though every
human being is a liar, as it is written: "That you
may be justified in your words, and conquer when you are
judged." But if our wickedness provides proof of God's
righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking,
to inflict his wrath? Of course not! For how else is God to judge
the world? But if God's truth redounds to his glory through my
falsehood, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not
say - as we are accused and as some claim we say - that we should
do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they
deserve. [ROM 3:1-8]
For the law produces wrath; but where there is no law, neither
is there violation. [ROM 4:15]
For Christ, while we were still helpless, yet died at the
appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does
one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one
might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in
that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. How much more
then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved
through him from the wrath. Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much
more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life. Not only
that, but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now received reconciliation. [ROM 5:6-11]
Consequently, he has mercy upon whom he wills, and he hardens
whom he wills. You will say to me then, "Why (then) does he
still find fault? For who can oppose his will?" But who
indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is
made say to its maker, "Why have you created me so?" Or
does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make out of the
same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for an
ignoble one? What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known
his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath
made for destruction? This was to make known the riches of his
glory to the vessels of mercy, which he has prepared previously
for glory, namely, us whom he has called, not only from the Jews
but also from the Gentiles. [ROM 9:18-24]
Beloved, do not look for revenge but leave room for the wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." Rather, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head." Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good.
[ROM 12:19-21]
Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for
there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have
been established by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority
opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring
judgment upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear to
good conduct, but to evil. Do you wish to have no fear of
authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from
it, for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil,
be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is
the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer. Therefore, it
is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also
because of conscience. [ROM 13:1-5]
All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh,
following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by
nature children of wrath, like the rest. But God, who is rich in
mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were
dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by
grace you have been saved), raised us up with him, and seated us
with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come
he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in his kindness
to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not
from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created
in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in
advance, that we should live in them. [EPH 2:3-10]
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the
disobedient. So do not be associated with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.
[EPH 5:6-9]
Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality,
impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry. Because of these the wrath of God
is coming (upon the disobedient). [COL 3:5-6]
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the
word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that
you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in
Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not
only in Macedonia and (in) Achaia, but in every place your faith
in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything.
For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception
we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve
the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he
raised from (the) dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming
wrath. [1THES 1:6-10]
And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly,
that, in receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received
not a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is
now at work in you who believe. For you, brothers, have become
imitators of the churches of God that are in Judea in Christ
Jesus. For you suffer the same things from your compatriots as
they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the
prophets and persecuted us; they do not please God, and are
opposed to everyone, trying to prevent us from speaking to the
Gentiles that they may be saved, thus constantly filling up the
measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has finally begun to
come upon them. [1THES 2:13-16]
Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for
anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well
that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When
people are saying, "Peace and security," then sudden
disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman,
and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness,
for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are
children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the
night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do,
but let us stay alert and sober. Those who sleep go to sleep at
night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we
are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of
faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation. For God
did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our
Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake
or asleep we may live together with him. [1THES 5:1-10]
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Oh, that today you
would hear his voice, 'Harden not your hearts as at the
rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, where your
ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works for forty
years. Because of this I was provoked with
that generation and I said, "They have always been
of erring heart, and they do not know my ways." As I swore in
my wrath, "They shall not enter into my
rest."'" Take care, brothers, that none of you may have
an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.
Encourage yourselves daily while it is still "today," so
that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin. We have
become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the
reality firm until the end, for it is said: "Oh, that
today you would hear his voice: 'Harden not your hearts as at
the rebellion.'" [HEB 3:7-15]
Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering
into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed. For
in fact we have received the good news just as they did. But the
word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united
in faith with those who listened. For we who believed enter into
(that) rest, just as he has said: "As I swore in my
wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest,'" and
yet his works were accomplished at the foundation of
the world. [HEB 4:1-3]
Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath, for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God. [JMS 1:19-20]
Then I watched while he broke open the sixth seal, and there
was a great earthquake; the sun turned as black as dark sackcloth
and the whole moon became like blood. The stars in the sky fell to
the earth like unripe figs shaken loose from the tree in a strong
wind. Then the sky was divided like a torn scroll curling up, and
every mountain and island was moved from its place. The kings of
the earth, the nobles, the military officers, the rich, the
powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in caves
and among mountain crags. They cried out to the mountains and the
rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who
sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the
great day of their wrath has come and who can withstand it?" [RV 6:12-17]
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet. There were loud voices
in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world now belongs to
our Lord and to his Anointed, and he will reign forever and
ever." The twenty-four elders who sat on their thrones before
God prostrated themselves and worshiped God and
said: "We give thanks to you, Lord God
almighty, who are and who were. For you have assumed
your great power and have established your reign. The nations
raged, but your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to
be judged, and to recompense your servants, the
prophets, and the holy ones and those who fear your
name, the small and the great alike, and to destroy
those who destroy the earth." Then God's temple in heaven was
opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple.
There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder,
an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm.
[RV 11:15-19]
A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice,
"Anyone who worships the beast or its image, or accepts its
mark on forehead or hand, will also drink the wine of God's fury,
poured full strength into the cup of his wrath, and will be
tormented in burning sulfur before the holy angels and before the
Lamb. The smoke of the fire that torments them will rise forever
and ever, and there will be no relief day or night for those who
worship the beast or its image or accept the mark of its
name." [RV 14:9-11]
The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air. A loud
voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, "It is
done." Then there were lightning flashes, rumblings, and
peals of thunder, and a great earthquake. It was such a violent
earthquake that there has never been one like it since the human
race began on earth. The great city was split into three parts,
and the gentile cities fell. But God remembered great Babylon,
giving it the cup filled with the wine of his fury and wrath.
Every island fled, and mountains disappeared. Large hailstones
like huge weights came down from the sky on people, and they
blasphemed God for the plague of hail because this plague was so
severe. [RV 16:17-21]
Then I saw the heavens opened, and there was a white horse; its
rider was (called) "Faithful and True." He judges and
wages war in righteousness. His eyes were (like) a fiery flame,
and on his head were many diadems. He had a name inscribed that no
one knows except himself. He wore a cloak that had been dipped in
blood, and his name was called the Word of God. The armies of
heaven followed him, mounted on white horses and wearing clean
white linen. Out of his mouth came a sharp sword to strike the
nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he himself will
tread out in the wine press the wine of the fury and wrath of God
the almighty. He has a name written on his cloak and on his thigh,
"King of kings and Lord of lords." [RV 19:11-16]
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anger
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fury
/ furious [F14]
afflict
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merciless
[M3a]
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