Thematic Bible: Anger of God


Thematic Bible




The great day of Yahweh draws near; [it is] near and [coming] very swiftly. The sound of the day of Yahweh [is] bitterness; there, a warrior cries out! That day [will be] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds, a day of trumpet and [trumpet] blast against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. read more.
And I will bring distress to all humankind, and they shall walk about like the blind, for they sinned against Yahweh; their blood shall be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung. Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.




because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" Verse ConceptsSelf JustificationThe Judgement Is CalledAble To StandThe Day Of JudgementHaving A Good Day

And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." Verse ConceptsFutureLast JudgmentMinistry, Nature OfReverence, And God's NatureSmallnessFear Of God, Results OfEcologyEternal JudgmentThe Day Of JudgementDestruction Of Satan's WorksThe DestroyerThe Final JudgementGreat And SmallGod Angry With The NationsSlaves Of GodAmericaAngry With GodThe Environment

And out of his mouth came a sharp sword, so that with it he could strike the nations. And he will shepherd them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the wine of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful. Verse ConceptsBabylonArmageddonBeverages, FigurativeGovernmentIronSceptreSymbolsThe AlmightyRodsTreading GrapesIron ObjectsOther References To MouthsWeapons Of ChristThe Coming Day Of God's WrathTransfiguration

And Yahweh afflicted the people because they had made the bull calf that Aaron had made. Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsCalf worshipAngels as agents of judgmentRetributionAnger Of God, Examples OfGod Harmed Them

And it happened, the people were like those who {complain of hardship} {in the hearing} of Yahweh, and Yahweh {became angry}, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp. Verse ConceptsBalaams Donkeydoubt, results ofFireGrudgesHearingProvoking GodResentment, Against GodAnger Of God, Examples OfDivine DispleasureDispleasureComplaintsFire From HeavenGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Will Be AngryProblem PeopleComplaining

They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned." But Moses said, "Why [are] you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed. You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies, read more.
because the Amalekites and the Canaanites [are] there {before you}, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned [back] from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you." But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp. So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah.

And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died. Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSerpentsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As Punishment

The ones who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfTwenty Thousand And UpDeath As Punishment

Again Yahweh [was] angry with Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah." Verse ConceptsProvoking GodTribes Of IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfGod Urging

Then Yahweh sent a plague into Israel from the morning {until the agreed time}, and from the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men died. Verse ConceptsPestilenceFifty To Ninety ThousandDeath As Punishment

Now the hand of Yahweh was heavy against the Ashdodites and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and its territories. Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

{While} Samuel [was] sacrificing the burnt offering, [the] Philistines drew near for the battle against Israel. But Yahweh thundered against [the] Philistines with a great noise on that day and threw them into confusion so that they were defeated before Israel. Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfdefeatThunderAnger Of God, Examples OfGod OvercomingThunder Expressing God's Judgment

For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten [off] by your wrath. Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationAnger Of God, Description

"How often is [the] lamp of [the] wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger. Verse ConceptsLampsAfflictions Of The WickedProsperity Of The Wicked

He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of {destroying} angels. He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague. And he struck down all [the] firstborn in Egypt, [the] first of [their] virility in the tents of Ham.

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}. Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

{Therefore} thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Look, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished." Verse ConceptsNot ExtinguishingBoth Men And Animals AffectedHarming Trees

Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their {hunger} and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their stumbling block. Verse ConceptsAbilityTo DeliverdissatisfactionGoldThrowing AwaySatisfactionStomachsStumblingTreasureSalvation Not By WorksSending Things AwayThe Entrance Of SinThings Which Cannot SaveHindering God's WorkMoney's DeficienciesSaving Money

And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? Verse ConceptsDesertsIrritationMisused Privileges40 To 50 YearsDying In The WildernessDying In The Desert Sinners Grasped By Death

Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for [by then] the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven. Verse ConceptsOblivionGod, Zeal OfJealousyNames Blotted OutBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawGod Not ForgivingAnger And Forgivenesssmoking

So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll, Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawGod Will Be Angry

Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what [will be] their end, for they [are] a generation of perversity, {children in whom there is no faithfulness}.

For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned {up to the depths of Sheol}, and it devoured [the] earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of [the] mountains. Verse ConceptsFoundationsHell, Punishment OfAfterlifeHell, As An ExperienceEarth, Judgment OfMountains RemovedEarth's FoundationFire Emanating From GodGod Has AngerState Of The Dead

But Yahweh [is] the true God, he [is] the living God, and {an everlasting king}. Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and [the] nations cannot endure his anger. Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingGod Is TruthfulHonestyEarth, Judgment OfGod Shaking The EarthGod Has AngerNature Of GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is GodEverlastingLiving For Godwrathreality

And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp [from] in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic. Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfNightObelisksGod Appearing In FireGod Seeing The WickedPuzzlementcloudsarmy

At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse slumber. {You, indeed, are to be feared}, and who can stand before you when you [are] angry? From heaven you proclaimed judgment. [The] earth feared and was still

See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? They lie in [the] soil of [the] streets, young and old; my young women and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of {your anger}, you have slaughtered and not shown mercy. You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh's anger [is] a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed.

How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? Verse ConceptsGod, JealousProlonged AfflictionsEternal JudgementBefore God ActsWill God Be Angry?Anger And Forgiveness

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people? Verse ConceptsBefore God ActsWill God Be Angry?Anger And Forgiveness

Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish. Verse ConceptsdefeatHand Of GodAfflictions, Prayer DuringGod's HandGod's Hands In OppositionOvercoming

O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you; O Yahweh, I stand in awe of your works. In the midst of the years, revive it! In the midst of the years, make [it] known! In wrath, may you remember to show compassion. Verse ConceptsAmazingAnger Of God, Nature OfGrace, In OtReverence, And God's NatureRevival, CorporateRestoring NationsAfflictions, Prayer DuringThe MiddleHearing About GodBe Merciful!Individuals Fearing GodLet Not God Be AngryGod's Things RevealedRenewalSpeechrevivalwrathdeeds

Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, {your holy mountain}, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors. Verse ConceptsCityGod, Righteousness OfHillsAccording To ThingsGod Does Right For PeopleLet Not God Be AngryAnger And Forgiveness

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears because of your indignation and anger, for you have picked me up and thrown me away.

If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with rod, and their guilt with wounds.

For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten [off] by your wrath. You have put our iniquities before you, our hidden [sins] into the light of your countenance. For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh.

O Yahweh our God, you answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their [wrong] deeds. Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnGod AnsweredA Forgiving GodGod Executes Vengeance


Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for {a very little} while, until [the] wrath has passed over. Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationA Short TimeShutting DoorsHiding From GodShort Time For ActionSpeed Of God's AngerPraying Behind Closed Doors

I hid my face from you [for] a moment, in the flowing of anger, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting faithfulness" says your redeemer, Yahweh. Verse ConceptsGentlenessFace Of GodGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessAnger Of God, Saved FromLoving Kindness Of GodGod HidingGod Will Show Mercywrathcredibility

For thus says [the] high and lofty one who resides forever, and [whose] name [is] holy: "I reside [in] a high and holy place, and with [the] {contrite} and humble of spirit, to revive [the] spirit of [the] humble, and to revive [the] heart of [the] {contrite}. For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for [the] spirit will grow faint before me, and [the] breaths [that] I myself I have made.

Why should any living person complain about his sin? Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsResentment, Against GodComplaintsComplaining

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel destroying among the people, and he said, "Look, I have sinned and I have done wrong, but these sheep, what did they do? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father." Verse ConceptsIntercessionSelf CondemnationSheepShepherds, As Kings And LeadersIntercessory PrayerSeeing AngelsGod Opposing

You have covered [yourself] {in anger} and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy. Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleNot SparingAnger And Forgivenesspity

Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish [on the] way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all [who] take refuge in him. Verse ConceptsKissing ChristKissingAnger Of JesusKissesBlessed Through GodSpeed Of God's AngerTrustPurity

{You, indeed, are to be feared}, and who can stand before you when you [are] angry? Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, DescriptionReverence, And God's NatureGod Has AngerGod Is To Be Fearedwrath

Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with [the] fear due you? Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAnger Of God, DescriptionGod Has AngerPassion


And Moses {implored Yahweh} his God, and he said, "Why, Yahweh, should {your anger blaze} against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? Verse ConceptsFace Of GodGrace, In OtMoses, Significance OfPleasing GodPrayer, Described AsStrength Of GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWhy Does God Do This?Seeking The Favour Of GodEclipse

O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger, and do not discipline me in your wrath. Verse ConceptsChastisementMusicMusical Instruments, types ofDispleasureGod Angry With IndividualsGod Requite Them!instruments

O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath. Verse ConceptsChastisementDispleasureGod Angry With IndividualsGod Requite Them!

Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? Remember your congregation [that] you bought long ago, [when] you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. [Remember] {Mount Zion} where you have dwelt.

Yahweh is slow to anger but great [in] power; he will certainly not allow [the guilty] to go unpunished. {He marches} in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds [are the] dust of his feet. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFeetClouds, God's PresenceGod, Patience OfStormsWhirlwindsPower Of God, DescribedThe AlmightyAcquittalGod In The WindCondemnation Of The WickedSpeed Of God's AngerHurricanesGuiltfootstepspatientsdustfootprintsGod Controls Storms


For the sake of my name I {refrain from} my anger, and [for] my praise I restrain [it] for you [so as] not to cut you off. Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfRestraintPunishment, DelayedForbearanceDivine DelaysRestraints From Killing

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said} while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled} to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love}, and one who relents concerning calamity. Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfGod, Repentance OfKnowing God, Nature OfReceptivenessRestraintGod Is UnchangeableGod Changing His MindHasty ActionSaying The Same ThingsSaying RepeatedlyA Forgiving GodGod Turned Back From Harming ThemKnowing God's CharacterAnger And Forgivenessjonah

[The] kings of [the] earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspire together against Yahweh and his anointed: "Let us tear off their bonds, and cast their cords from us!"

Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his fury he terrifies them: Verse ConceptsDivine DispleasureDispleasureTerror Of GodGod Angry With The Nations

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved, so that [they] always fill up their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the end. Verse ConceptsSpeaking As From GodThose Not SavedHindering God's Work

It happened that he [was] worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword. Then they escaped [into] the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place. Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsReligionSwordsWicked Children, Examples OfDesecrationKilling KingsEscaping From PeopleForeign Kings

It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses. Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordMorningOne Hundred Thousand And MoreGod KillingThose Who Rose EarlyAngel Of DeathGod Killed The PeoplesAngels Activities Among UnbelieversDeath

Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come. Verse ConceptsFace Of GodHorsesHumiliationNosesRestraintAnger Of God, Examples OfWicked Described AsDivine RestraintsProud People

{You, indeed, are to be feared}, and who can stand before you when you [are] angry? Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, DescriptionReverence, And God's NatureGod Has AngerGod Is To Be Fearedwrath

God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow. Verse ConceptsHumbling The Proud

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

His indignation--who can stand before it? Who can endure {his fierce anger}? His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before him. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Nature OfGod's IndignationPunishment, By GodRocksSplitting RocksFire Of God's AngerStanding FirmGod Has AngerLake Of FirePassionwrathventing

Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes. Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeopleMind, Of GodGod Will Show MercyGod Works His WillMercyMercy And Grace

On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded [it], "Why did you make me like this"? Verse ConceptsPresumptionStriving With GodAnswering GodOther Unimportant PeopleMan's Relationship With His CreatorQuestioning GodMan's Relation To God


And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life." For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life. read more.
For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him. The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.



[Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?" Verse ConceptsProvokingFruits Of SinShame Has Comehurting

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]? Verse ConceptsProvokingGod Is Strong

And it happened, as soon as he finished {speaking} all these words, the ground that [was] under them split open. Verse ConceptsThe Ground Being Split

And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense. Verse ConceptsFireDeath penaltyGod KillingFire Emanating From GodBurning PeopleIncense Offered AmissTwo Hundred And SomeGod Killed His People

they were not willing [to accept] my counsel, they despised all my reproof. They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes,

If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung} it. Verse ConceptsSwordsThreateningsSharpening

God [is] a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day. Verse ConceptsAngerAnger Of God, Nature OfGod, Righteousness OfJudgesPropitiationWickedGod Has Anger

Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you. You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.

For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them." Verse ConceptsForsaking GodGrace, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfRoadsGod's HandConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod's Hands On PeopleShame Has Come

Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy [with] iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged [and gone] backward. Verse ConceptsCorruption, Of HumanityAbandonmentForsaking God, Illustrated ByImpenitence, Warnings AgainstNationalismRejection Of GodEvildoersGod's People Sinningcorruption


"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people {with whom he is pleased}!" Verse ConceptsHymnsGod Is TranscendentGod On HighEarthNativity of Jesus ChristFavorPerspectiveluck

Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh. And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.

For [if] we keep on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries.

{And Yahweh became very angry} with them, and he went [away]. And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam [was] infected with {a skin disease} white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, [she was] afflicted with a skin disease.

And every living thing that moved on the earth perished--the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind. Everything in whose nostrils [was] {the breath of life}, among all that [was] on dry land, died. And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who [were] with him in the ark remained.

Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? [Was it] not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not {obey} his law. So he poured [the] wrath [of] his anger upon him and [the] strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand; and it burned him, but he did not take [it] to heart.

So fire went out {from before} Yahweh, and it consumed them so that they died {before} Yahweh. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As PunishmentBurning PeopleThe Presence Of God

Therefore Yahweh heard and he was very angry, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and [his] anger also rose up against Israel, because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

[The] righteous will rejoice when he sees [the] vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. And people will say, "Surely [there is] a {reward} for the righteous. Surely there is a God [who] judges in the land."

There [was] a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year. And David {inquired of Yahweh}, and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt [is] on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites." Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfFamine, Examples OfFace Of GodGod's Activity In IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfThree YearsFound GuiltyFamily Problemssaul

He struck seventy men among the men of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the ark of Yahweh. So the people mourned because Yahweh had struck a great blow among the people. Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionArk Of The Covenant, PurposeDeath penaltyAnger Of God, Examples OfCarnageSacrilegeFifty To Ninety ThousandThe Ark Moved AroundGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleAnointing OilArk Of The Covenant

So Saul died, and his three sons, {his armor bearer}, [and] all his men together that [same] day. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfFamily Death

Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more {Yahweh's fierce anger} against Israel. Verse ConceptsPrejudiceChildren Of Evil

And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed! Be strong and bold, for thus Yahweh will do to all your enemies whom you [are] about to fight. Verse ConceptsSpiritual Warfare, As ConflictAnger Of God, Examples OfBraveryStrength Of PeopleBe Courageous!Be Strong!CourageBeing Scared

So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsWork, Divine And HumanAnger Of God, Examples OfDeparturesScattering The PeoplesCessation

{Then the anger of Yahweh was kindled} against Uzza, and God struck him down there because of the indiscretion, and he died there beside the ark of God. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyAnger Of God, CausesGod's Intolerance Of EvilRetributionAnger Of God, Examples OfGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsError

"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted [what is] right, and it was not paid back to me. He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so {I will enjoy the light}.'