Thematic Bible: Anger of God


Thematic Bible




For the great day of the LORD is at hand: it is heard by, and cometh on a pace. Horrible is the tidings of the LORD's day; then shall the giant cry out. For that day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heaviness, a day of utter destruction and misery, a dark and gloomy day, a cloudy and stormy day, a day of the noise of trumpets and shawmes, against the strong cities and high towers. read more.
I will bring the people to such vexation, that they shall go about like blind men; because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood shall be shed as the dust, and their bodies as the mire. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.





And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead; that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets and saints, and to them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them, which 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 went out a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the heathen. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he trod the wine-vat of fierceness and wrath of almighty God. Verse ConceptsBabylonArmageddonBeverages, FigurativeGovernmentIronSceptreSymbolsThe AlmightyRodsTreading GrapesIron ObjectsOther References To MouthsWeapons Of ChristThe Coming Day Of God's WrathTransfiguration


And the people waxed unpatient, and it displeased the ears of the LORD. And when the LORD heard it, he was wroth, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed the uttermost of the host. Verse ConceptsBalaams Donkeydoubt, results ofFireGrudgesHearingProvoking GodResentment, Against GodAnger Of God, Examples OfDivine DispleasureDispleasureComplaintsFire From HeavenGod Paid Attention To ThemGod Will Be AngryProblem PeopleComplaining

And they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, "Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place of which the LORD said, for we have sinned." And Moses said, "Wherefore will ye go on this manner beyond the word of the LORD? It will not come well to pass: go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not slain before your enemies. read more.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, and therefore the LORD will not be with you." But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Neverthelater, the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the host. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, came down and smote them and hewed them: even unto Hormah.

Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, which stung them: so that much people died in Israel. Verse ConceptsBitingPoisonSerpentsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As Punishment


And the LORD was wroth again against Israel, and stirred up David against them, saying, "Go and number both Israel and Judah." Verse ConceptsProvoking GodTribes Of IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfGod Urging

And the LORD sent a pestilence in Israel from the morning unto the end of the time appointed. And there died of the people between Dan and Beersheba seventy thousand men. Verse ConceptsPestilenceFifty To Ninety ThousandDeath As Punishment

But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids; both Ashdod and all the coasts thereof. Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

And as Samuel offered the burnt offering, the Philistines came to fight against Israel. But the LORD thundered a great thunder the same day upon the Philistines, and turmoiled them, that they were beaten before Israel. Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfdefeatThunderAnger Of God, Examples OfGod OvercomingThunder Expressing God's Judgment

For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationAnger Of God, Description

"How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? How oft cometh their destruction upon them? Oh what sorrow shall God give them for their part in his wrath! Verse ConceptsLampsAfflictions Of The WickedProsperity Of The Wicked

How he sent upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil angels among them; When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham.

For this cause shall the wrath of the LORD of Hosts fall upon the land, and the people shall be consumed, as it were with fire: no man shall spare his brother, Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFire Of God's AngerNot Sparingwrath

And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God, "Behold, my wrath and my indignation shall be poured out upon this place, upon men and cattle, upon the trees in the field and all fruit of the land, and it shall burn so, that no man may quench it." Verse ConceptsNot ExtinguishingBoth Men And Animals AffectedHarming Trees

their silver shall lie in the streets, and their gold shall be despised. Yea, their silver and gold may not deliver them in the day of the fearful wrath of the LORD. They shall not satisfy their hungry souls, neither fill their empty bellies therewith: For it is become their own decay through their wickedness: Verse ConceptsAbilityTo DeliverdissatisfactionGoldThrowing AwaySatisfactionStomachsStumblingTreasureSalvation Not By WorksSending Things AwayThe Entrance Of SinThings Which Cannot SaveHindering God's WorkMoney's DeficienciesSaving Money

But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned: whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? Verse ConceptsDesertsIrritationMisused Privileges40 To 50 YearsDying In The WildernessDying In The Desert Sinners Grasped By Death

"And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven, Verse ConceptsOblivionGod, Zeal OfJealousyNames Blotted OutBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawGod Not ForgivingAnger And Forgivenesssmoking

And therefore the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawGod Will Be Angry

And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith.

For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains. Verse ConceptsFoundationsHell, Punishment OfAfterlifeHell, As An ExperienceEarth, Judgment OfMountains RemovedEarth's FoundationFire Emanating From GodGod Has AngerState Of The Dead

But the LORD is a true God, a living God, and an everlasting king. If he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation. Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingGod Is TruthfulHonestyEarth, Judgment OfGod Shaking The EarthGod Has AngerNature Of GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is GodEverlastingLiving For Godwrathreality

And in the morning watch, the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy pillar, and troubled their host; Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfNightObelisksGod Appearing In FireGod Seeing The WickedPuzzlementcloudsarmy

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are fallen. Thou art fearful, for who may abide in thy sight, when thou art angry? When thou lettest thy judgment be heard from heaven, the earth trembleth and is still;

{ Res} Behold, O LORD, and consider: why hast thou gathered me up so clean? Shall the women then eat their own fruit; even children of a span long? Shall the priests and prophets be slain thus in the Sanctuary of the LORD? {Shin} Young and old lie behind the streets, upon the ground; my maidens and young men are slain with the sword: whom thou in the day of thy wrathful indignation hast put to death. Yea, even thou hast put them to death, and not spared them. {Tav} My neighbours that are round about me hast thou called, as it were to a feast day: so that in the day of the LORD's wrath none escaped, neither was any left behind. Those that I had brought up and nourished, hath mine enemy destroyed.

LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? Verse ConceptsGod, JealousProlonged AfflictionsEternal JudgementBefore God ActsWill God Be Angry?Anger And Forgiveness

O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people? Verse ConceptsBefore God ActsWill God Be Angry?Anger And Forgiveness

Turn thy plagues away from me, for I am consumed through the fear of thy hand. Verse ConceptsdefeatHand Of GodAfflictions, Prayer DuringGod's HandGod's Hands In OppositionOvercoming


O LORD, and done wickedly against all thy righteousness: Yet let thy wrathful displeasure be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill. And why? For our sins' sake, and for the wickedness of our forefathers is Jerusalem and thy people abhorred, of all them that are about us. Verse ConceptsCityGod, Righteousness OfHillsAccording To ThingsGod Does Right For PeopleLet Not God Be AngryAnger And Forgiveness

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping, and that because of thine indignation and wrath; for thou hast taken me up, and cast me down.

But if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, I will visit their offenses with the rod, and their sins with scourges.

For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

Thou heardest them, O LORD our God; thou forgavest them, O God, and punished their own inventions. Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnGod AnsweredA Forgiving GodGod Executes Vengeance


So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast. Verse ConceptsGod's IndignationA Short TimeShutting DoorsHiding From GodShort Time For ActionSpeed Of God's AngerPraying Behind Closed Doors

When I was angry, I hid my face from thee for a little season, but through everlasting goodness shall I pardon thee, sayeth the LORD thine avenger. Verse ConceptsGentlenessFace Of GodGod's attitude towards peopleKindnessAnger Of God, Saved FromLoving Kindness Of GodGod HidingGod Will Show Mercywrathcredibility

For thus sayeth the high and excellent, even he that dwelleth in everlastingness, whose name is the holy one: I dwell high above and in the sanctuary, and with him also, that is of a contrite and humble spirit: that I may heal a troubled mind, and a contrite heart. For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath.

Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin. Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsResentment, Against GodComplaintsComplaining

Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house." Verse ConceptsIntercessionSelf CondemnationSheepShepherds, As Kings And LeadersIntercessory PrayerSeeing AngelsGod Opposing

{Samekh} Thou hast covered us in thy wrath, and persecuted us, thou hast slain us, without any favour. Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleNot SparingAnger And Forgivenesspity

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way. For his wrath shall be kindled shortly: blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Verse ConceptsKissing ChristKissingAnger Of JesusKissesBlessed Through GodSpeed Of God's AngerTrustPurity

Thou art fearful, for who may abide in thy sight, when thou art angry? Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, DescriptionReverence, And God's NatureGod Has AngerGod Is To Be Fearedwrath

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAnger Of God, DescriptionGod Has AngerPassion


Then Moses besought the LORD his God and said, "O LORD, why should thy wrath wax hot upon thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty 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

{To the Chanter in Neginoth upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation, neither chasten me in thy displeasure. Verse ConceptsChastisementMusicMusical Instruments, types ofDispleasureGod Angry With IndividualsGod Requite Them!instruments

{To the Chanter, To Bring Remembrance} Put me not to rebuke, O LORD, in thy anger; O chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure. Verse ConceptsChastisementDispleasureGod Angry With IndividualsGod Requite Them!

{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old; the staff of thine inheritance, whom thou hast redeemed, even this hill of Zion wherein thou dwellest.

The LORD suffereth long, he is of great power, and so innocent that he leaveth no man faultless before him. The LORD goeth forth in tempest and stormy weather; the 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


Nevertheless, for my name's sake, I have withdrawn my wrath, and for mine honour's sake I have overseen thee, so that I have not rooted thee out. Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfRestraintPunishment, DelayedForbearanceDivine DelaysRestraints From Killing

And he prayed unto the LORD and said, "O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? And therefore I hasted rather to flee to Tarshish: for I knew well enough that thou wast a merciful god, full of compassion long before thou be angry, and of great mercy and repentest when thou art come to take punishment. 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 stood up and the rulers came together against the LORD, and against his Christ. Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure, Verse ConceptsDivine DispleasureDispleasureTerror Of GodGod Angry With The Nations

and forbid us to preach unto the gentiles, that they might be saved, to fulfill their sins always: For the wrath of God is come on them, even to the utmost. Verse ConceptsSpeaking As From GodThose Not SavedHindering God's Work

And as he was in his devotion kneeling in the house of Nisroch his God, Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsReligionSwordsWicked Children, Examples OfDesecrationKilling KingsEscaping From PeopleForeign Kings

And the selfsame night the Angel of the LORD went out and smote, in the host of the Assyrians, a hundred and four score and five thousand. And when they were up early in the morning: behold, they were all dead corpses. Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordMorningOne Hundred Thousand And MoreGod KillingThose Who Rose EarlyAngel Of DeathGod Killed The PeoplesAngels Activities Among UnbelieversDeath

And because thou settest up thy bristles against me, and that thy raging is come up to mine ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose and a bit in thy lips, and will bring thee back again the same way thou camest. Verse ConceptsFace Of GodHorsesHumiliationNosesRestraintAnger Of God, Examples OfWicked Described AsDivine RestraintsProud People

Thou art fearful, for who may abide in thy sight, when thou art angry? Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, DescriptionReverence, And God's NatureGod Has AngerGod Is To Be Fearedwrath

He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him. Verse ConceptsHumbling The Proud

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolDesire For DeathGod Hiding People

Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Nature OfGod's IndignationPunishment, By GodRocksSplitting RocksFire Of God's AngerStanding FirmGod Has AngerLake Of FirePassionwrathventing

So hath he mercy on whom he will. And whom he will, he maketh hard hearted. Verse ConceptsGod Hardening PeopleMind, Of GodGod Will Show MercyGod Works His WillMercyMercy And Grace

But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?" Verse ConceptsPresumptionStriving With GodAnswering GodOther Unimportant PeopleMan's Relationship With His CreatorQuestioning GodMan's Relation To God


And as Moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lift up, that none that believeth in him perish: but have eternal life. For God so loveth the world, that he hath given his only son, for the intent that none that believe in him should perish: But should have everlasting life. read more.
For God sent not his son into the world, to condemn the world: But that the world, through him, might be saved. He that believeth on him shall not be condemned. But he that believeth not, is condemned already, because he believeth not in the name of the only son of God.



Howbeit, they hurt not me," sayeth the LORD, "but rather confound, and shame themselves." Verse ConceptsProvokingFruits Of SinShame Has Comehurting

Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he? Verse ConceptsProvokingGod Is Strong

And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under them, Verse ConceptsThe Ground Being Split

And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense. Verse ConceptsFireDeath penaltyGod KillingFire Emanating From GodBurning PeopleIncense Offered AmissTwo Hundred And SomeGod Killed His People

but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction. Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:

If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready. Verse ConceptsSwordsThreateningsSharpening

God is a righteous judge, strong and patient; and God is provoked every day. Verse ConceptsAngerAnger Of God, Nature OfGod, Righteousness OfJudgesPropitiationWickedGod Has Anger

All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee. Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

For I was ashamed to require of the king, soldiers and horsemen, to help us against the enemy in the way. For we had said unto the king, "The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness, and his violence and wrath is upon all them that forsake him." Verse ConceptsForsaking GodGrace, In OtRejection Of God, Results OfRoadsGod's HandConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod's Hands On PeopleShame Has Come

Alas for this sinful nation, which are expert in blasphemies; a seed of ungracious people, corrupt in their ways. They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward. Verse ConceptsCorruption, Of HumanityAbandonmentForsaking God, Illustrated ByImpenitence, Warnings AgainstNationalismRejection Of GodEvildoersGod's People Sinningcorruption


"Glory to God on high: and peace on the earth, and unto men, rejoicing." Verse ConceptsHymnsGod Is TranscendentGod On HighEarthNativity of Jesus ChristFavorPerspectiveluck

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.

For if we sin willingly after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins: but a fearful looking for judgment, and violent fire, which shall devour the adversaries.

And the LORD was angry with them and went his way, and the cloud departed from the tabernacle. And behold, Miriam was become leprous, as it were snow. And when Aaron looked upon Miriam and saw that she was leprous,

And all flesh that moved on the earth, both birds, cattle and beasts, perished; with all that crept on the earth, and all men: so that all that had the breath of life in the nostrils of it, throughout all that was on dry land, died. Thus was destroyed all that was upon the earth; both man, beasts, worms and fowls of the air, so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noah was reserved only and they that were with him in the ark.

Who suffered Jacob to be trodden under foot, and Israel to be spoiled? Did not the LORD? Now have we sinned against him, and have had no delight to walk in his ways, neither been obedient unto his law. Therefore hath he poured upon us his wrathful displeasure, and strong battle, which maketh us have to do on every side, yet will we not understand. He burneth us up, yet sinketh it not into our hearts.

And there went a fire out from the LORD, and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfDeath As PunishmentBurning PeopleThe Presence Of God

When the LORD heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and heavy displeasure against Israel, because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in his help.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly. So that men shall say, "Verily there is a reward for the righteous! Doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the earth!"

Then there fell a hunger in the days of David: three years, year by year. And David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, "It is for Saul's sake and the house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites." Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfFamine, Examples OfFace Of GodGod's Activity In IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfThree YearsFound GuiltyFamily Problemssaul

And he plagued the men of Bethshemesh, because they had seen the ark of the LORD. And he slew of the people fifty thousand and three score and ten persons. And the people lamented, because the LORD had slain so great a slaughter of them. 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

And so Saul died and his three sons and his harness bearer, and thereto all his men, that same day together. Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfFamily Death

"And behold, ye are risen up in your father's stead, the increase of sinful men, to augment the fierce wrath of the LORD to Israelward. Verse ConceptsPrejudiceChildren Of Evil

And Joshua said unto them, "Fear not, nor dread: But be strong and pluck up your hearts, for so shall the LORD serve all your enemies against which ye fight." Verse ConceptsSpiritual Warfare, As ConflictAnger Of God, Examples OfBraveryStrength Of PeopleBe Courageous!Be Strong!CourageBeing Scared

Thus the LORD scattered them from thence upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city. Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsWork, Divine And HumanAnger Of God, Examples OfDeparturesScattering The PeoplesCessation

And the LORD was wrath with Uzzah; and God smote him in the same place for his fault, and there he died by the ark of God. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyAnger Of God, CausesGod's Intolerance Of EvilRetributionAnger Of God, Examples OfGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsError

Such a respect hath he unto men. Therefore let a man confess, and say, 'I offended, but he hath chastened and reformed me: I did unrighteously nevertheless he hath not recompensed me thereafter. Yea, he hath delivered my soul from destruction, and my life, that it seeth the light.'