'Wrath' in the Bible

And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.

And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day.

The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.

And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.

And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

So Amaziah, separating the armed band which had come to him from Ephraim, sent them back again; which made them very angry with Judah, and they went back burning with wrath.

And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?

Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.

And said to them, You are not to let these prisoners come here; for what you are designing to do will be a cause of sin against the Lord to us, making even greater our sin and our wrongdoing, which now are great enough, and his wrath is burning against Israel.

And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.

Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

But when the God of heaven was moved to wrath by our fathers, he gave them up into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, the Chaldaean, who sent destruction on this house and took the people away into Babylon.

Whatever is ordered by the God of heaven, let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven; so that there may not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.

For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.

So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.

Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.

But when the servants gave her the king's order, Vashti the queen said she would not come: then the king was very angry, and his heart was burning with wrath.

And the wives of the captains of Persia and Media, hearing what the queen has done, will say the same to all the king's captains. So there will be much shame and wrath.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not go down before him and give him honour, Haman was full of wrath.

Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart; but when he saw Mordecai in the king's doorway, and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai.

And the king in his wrath got up from the feast and went into the garden: and Haman got to his feet to make a prayer for his life to Esther the queen: for he saw that the king's purpose was evil against him.

So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel;

The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.

Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

Then the wrath of the Lord was burning against his people, and he was angry with his heritage.

I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.