1508 verses about Anger

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

“Yahweh was very displeased with your fathers.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”

For Yahweh of Armies says: “As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I didn’t repent;

My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places”; Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

Why do you scourge us? If they are dead, go your ways with them. Let us never see either son or daughter from you.”

And he said to him, “Welcome, brother. Don’t be angry with me, because I sought to know your tribe and family. You are my brother, of an honest and good lineage; for I knew Ananias and Jathan, the sons of Shemaiah the great, when we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of our increase; and they didn’t go went astray in the error of our kindred. My brother, you are of a great stock.

And Nebuchadnezzar was exceedingly angry with all this land, and he swore by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all the coasts of Cilicia, Damascus, and Syria, that he would kill with his sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, until you come to the borders of the two seas.

In the eighteenth year, the twenty-second day of the first month, there was talk in the house of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians, that he should be avenged on all the land, even as he spoke.

He called together all his servants and all his great men, and communicated with them his secret counsel, and concluded the afflicting of all the land out of his own mouth.

And you shall go out against all the west country, because they disobeyed the commandment of my mouth.

You shall declare to them that they should prepare earth and water, because I will go out in my wrath against them, and will cover the whole face of the earth with the feet of my army, and I will give them as plunder to them.

Then he was exceedingly angry, and he called all the princes of Moab, and the captains of Ammon, and all the governors of the sea coast,

Why have they turned their backs, that they should not come and meet me, more than all that dwell in the west?”

It came to pass, when Achior had finished speaking these words, all the people standing around the tent murmured. The great men of Holofernes, and all that lived by the sea side and in Moab, said that he should kill him.

“And who are you, Achior, and the hirelings of Ephraim, that you have prophesied among us as today, and have said that we should not make war with the race of Israel, because their God will defend them? And who is God but Nebuchadnezzar?

But you, Achior, hireling of Ammon, who have spoken these words in the day of your iniquity, will see my face no more from this day, until I am avenged of the race of those that came out of Egypt.

And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace.”

For you will not find the depth of the heart of man, and you will not perceive the things that he thinks. How will you search out God, who has made all these things, and know his mind, and comprehend his purpose? No, my kindred, don’t provoke the Lord our God to anger!

“O Lord God of my father Simeon, into whose hand you gave a sword to take vengeance on the strangers who loosened the belt of a virgin to defile her, uncovered the thigh to her shame, and profaned the womb to her reproach; for you said, ‘It shall not be so;’ and they did so.

Break their strength in your power, and bring down their force in your wrath; for they intend to profane your sanctuary, and to defile the tabernacle where your glorious name rests, and to destroy the horn of your altar with the sword.

Look at their pride, and send your wrath upon their heads. Give into my hand, which am a widow, the might that I have conceived.

And now, if your people who dwell in the hill country had not slighted me, I would not have lifted up my spear against them; but they have done these things to themselves.

And now, that my lord be not defeated and frustrate of his purpose, and that death may fall upon them, their sin has overtaken them, wherewith they will provoke their God to anger, whenever they do wickedness.

But queen Vashti didn’t listen to him to come with the chamberlains; so the king was grieved and angered.

And Memucan said to the king and to the princes, “Queen Vashti has not wronged the king only, but also all the king’s rulers and princes:

If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’

After this, the king’s anger was pacified, and he no more mentioned Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.

Two chamberlains of the king, the chiefs of the body-guard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill king Ahasuerus.

When Haman understood that Mordecai did not bow down to him, he was greatly enraged,

So Haman went out from the king very glad and merry: but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.

But these things please me not, while I see Mordecai the Jew in the court.

And Zeresh his wife and his friends said to him, Let there be a gallows made for you of fifty cubits, and in the morning do you speak to the king, and let Mordecai be hanged on the gallows: but do you go in to the feast with the king, and be merry. And the saying pleased Haman, and the gallows was prepared.

And the king said, Who is this that has dared to do this thing?

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai: and then the king’s wrath was appeased.

He will take his jealousy as complete armor, And will make the whole creation his weapons for vengeance on his enemies:

And he will sharpen stern wrath for a sword: And the world will go forth with him to fight against his insensate foes.

And as from an engine of war will be hurled hailstones full of wrath; The water of the sea will be angered against them, And rivers will sternly overwhelm them;

But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, He perished himself in the rage wherewith he killed his brother.

When a righteous man was a fugitive from a brother’s wrath, wisdom guided him in straight paths; She showed him God’s kingdom, and gave him knowledge of holy things; She prospered him in his toils, and multiplied the fruits of his labor;

Or new-created wild beasts, full of rage, of unknown kind, Either breathing out a blast of fiery breath, Or blowing forth from their nostrils noisome smoke, Or flashing dreadful sparkles from their eyes;

For through the sufferings whereat they were indignant, Being punished in these creatures which they supposed to be gods, They saw, and recognized as the true God him whom before they refused to know: Wherefore also the last end of condemnation came upon them.

For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people, And they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents, Your wrath continued not to the uttermost;

And he overcame the anger, Not by strength of body, not by efficacy of weapons; But by word did he subdue the minister of punishment, By bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers.

For when the dead were already fallen in heaps one upon another, Standing between he stopped the advancing wrath, And cut off the way to the living.

But upon the ungodly there came to the end indignation without mercy; For their future also God foreknew,

Unjust wrath can never be justified; For the sway of his wrath is his downfall.

Woe to you that have lost your patience! And what will you⌃ do when the Lord shall visit you?

To a heart that is provoked add not more trouble; And defer not to give to him that is in need.

For if he curse you in the bitterness of his soul, He that made him will hear his supplication.

Be not as a lion in your house, Nor fanciful among your servants.

Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord; And put not off from day to day: For suddenly will the wrath of the Lord come forth; And you will perish in the time of vengeance.

Number not yourself among the multitude of sinners: Remember that wrath will not wait.

Contend not with a mighty man, Lest haply you fall into his hands.

Contend not with a man that is full of tongue, And heap not wood upon his fire.

Jest not with a rude man, Lest your ancestors be dishonored.

Kindle not the coals of a sinner, Lest you be burned with the flame of his fire.

Rise not up from the presence of an insolent man, Lest he lie in wait as an ambush for your mouth.

Go not in the way with a rash man, Lest he be aggrieved with you; For he will do according to his own will, And you will perish with his folly.

Fight not with a wrathful man, And travel not with him through the desert: For blood is as nothing in his sight; And where there is no help, he will overthrow you.

Be not angry with your neighbor for every wrong; And do nothing by works of violence.

Pride has not been created for men, Nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women.

From a spark of fire a heap of many coals is kindled; And a sinful man lies in wait for blood.

In the congregation of sinners will a fire be kindled; And in a disobedient nation wrath is kindled.

He was not pacified toward the giants of old time, Who revolted in their strength.

And in like manner the six hundred thousand footmen, Who were gathered together in the hardness of their hearts.

Even if there be one stiff-necked person, It is marvel if he will be unpunished: For mercy and wrath are with him; He is mighty to forgive, and he pours out wrath.

A fool will upbrade ungraciously; And the gift of an envious man consumes the eyes.

How good is it to reprove, rather than to be angry; And he that makes confession will be kept back from hurt.

Before fire is the vapor and smoke of a furnace; So revilings before bloodshed.

A man that is accustomed to words of reproach Will not be corrected all the days of his life.

Two sorts of men multiply sins, And the third will bring wrath: A hot mind, as a burning fire, will not be quenched till it be consumed: A fornicator in the body of his flesh will never cease till he has burned out the fire.

There is no head above the head of a serpent; And there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

There is anger, and impudence, and great reproach, If a woman maintain her husband.

A wicked woman is abasement of heart, And sadness of countenance, and a wounded heart: A woman that will not make her husband happy Is as hands that hang down, and palsied knees.

A grief of heart and sorrow is a woman that is jealous of another woman, And the scourge of a tongue communicating to all.

A drunken woman causes great wrath; And she will not cover her own shame.

For two things my heart is grieved; And for the third anger comes upon me: A man of war that suffers for poverty; And men of understanding that are counted as refuse: One that turns back from righteousness to sin; The Lord will prepare him for the sword.

For as a man has destroyed his enemy, So have you destroyed the friendship of your neighbor.

Wrath and anger, these also are abominations; And a sinful man will possess them.

He that takes vengeance will find vengeance from the Lord; And he will surely make firm his sins.

Man cherisheth anger against man; And does he seek healing from the Lord?

Upon a man like himself he has no mercy; And does he make supplication for his own sins?

He being himself flesh nourishes wrath: Who will make atonement for his sins?

Remember your last end, and cease from enmity: Remember corruption and death, and abide in the commandments.

Remember the commandments, and be not angry with your neighbor; And remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.

Abstain from strife, and you will diminish your sins: For a passionate man will kindle strife;

And a man that is a sinner will trouble friends, And will make debate among those who are at peace.

As is the fuel of the fire, so will it burn; And as the stoutness of the strife is, so will it burn: As is the strength of the man, so will be his wrath; And as is his wealth, so will he exalt his anger.

A contention begun in haste kindles a fire; And a hasty fighting sheds blood.

If you blow a spark, it will burn; And if you spit upon it, it will be quenched: And both these shall come out of your mouth.