1508 verses about Anger

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.

The stroke of a whip makes a mark in the flesh; But the stroke of a tongue will break bones.

Happy is he that is sheltered from it, That has not passed through the wrath thereof; That has not drawn its yoke, And has not been bound with its bands.

For the yoke thereof is a yoke of iron, And the bands thereof are bands of brass.

It shall not have rule over godly men; And they shall not be burned in its flame.

He that teaches his son shall provoke his enemy to jealousy; And before friends he shall rejoice of him.

Envy and wrath shorten a man’s days; And care brings old age before the time.

The furnace proves the temper of steel by dipping; So does wine prove hearts in the quarreling of the proud.

Wine drunk largely is bitterness of soul, With provocation and conflict.

Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt; It diminishes strength, and adds wounds.

Go not in a way of conflict; And stumble not in stony places.

Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath; Take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.

Let him that escapes be devoured by the rage of fire; And may those who harm your people find destruction.

A froward heart will cause heaviness: And a man of experience will recompense him.

As he has turned the waters into saltness; So shall the heathen inherit his wrath.

There be winds that are created for vengeance, And in their fury lay on their scourges heavily; In the time of consummation they pour out their strength, And shall appease the wrath of him that made them.

There is wrath, and jealousy, and trouble, and disquiet, And fear of death, and anger, and strife; And in the time of rest upon his bed His night sleep does change his knowledge.

Strangers gathered themselves together against him, And envied him in the wilderness, Even Dathan and Abiram with their company, And the congregation of Korah, with wrath and anger.

The Lord saw it, and it displeased him; And in the wrath of his anger they were destroyed: He did wonders upon them, To consume them with flaming fire.

You did blemish your honor, And profane your seed, To bring wrath upon your children; And I was grieved for your folly:

Who was recorded for reproofs in their seasons, To pacify anger, before it brake forth into wrath; To turn the heart of the father to the son, And to restore the tribes of Jacob.

In his days Sennacherib came up, And sent Rabshakeh, and departed; And he lifted up his hand against Sion, And boasted great things in his arrogancy.

Pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and to this day the wrath of the Lord and his indignation is not turned from us.

Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where you have scattered us.

For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, saying,

You⌃ were sold to the nations, but not for destruction: because you⌃ moved God to wrath, you⌃ were delivered to your adversaries.

For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Hearken, you⌃ women that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;

And he that can’t put to death one that offends against him holds a sceptre, as though he were judge of a country.

So the king was angry, and called for his priests, and said to them, If you⌃ tell me not who this is that devours these expenses, you⌃ shall die.

And the king said, I see the footsteps of men, women, and children. And then the king was angry,

When they of Babylon heard that, they took great indignation, and conspired against the king, saying, The king is become a Jew, and he has pulled down Bel, and slain the dragon, and put the priests to the sword.

So they came to the king, and said, Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy you and your house.

and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up,

And there came exceeding great wrath uponn Israel.

And when he had left speaking these words, there came a Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.

And Mattathias saw it, and his zeal was kindled, and his reins trembled, and he showed forth his wrath according to judgement, and ran, and killed him upon the altar.

And they mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.

And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons, Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.

And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed forever.

But when king Antiochus heard these words, he was full of indignation: and he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, an exceeding strong army.

but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he would been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass.

And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated as aforetime, they were exceeding angry.

and they rose up against him to battle: and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.

And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

And they went to the king, and said, How long will you not execute judgement, and avenge our kindred?

And when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his Friends, even the rulers of his army, and those who were over the horse.

and covenant with them, that they shall walk after their own laws, as aforetime: for because of their laws which we abolished they were angered, and did all these things.

And the king sent Nicanor, one of his honorable princes, a man that hated Israel and was their enemy, and commanded him to destroy the people.

and sware in a rage, saying, Unless Judas and his army be now delivered into my hands, it shall be that, if I come again in peace, I will burn up this house: and he went out in a great rage.

take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.

And they were very angry with the lawless men that gave him counsel to come into the country, and they killed many of them. And he took counsel to depart into his own land.

And Demetrius heard these things, and he was grieved, and said,

and king Alexander heard thereof, and he grieved exceedingly, and returned to Antioch.

You alone lift up yourself against us, but I am had in derision and in reproach because of you. And why do you vaunt your power against us in the mountains?

And they told the king what things Jonathan had done, that they might cast blame on him: and the king held his peace.

And he cast blame on him, because he coveted his kingdom.

And he heard, and was angered; but when he heard it, he set forth immediately, and came to Ptolemais, and wrote to Jonathan, that he should not besiege it, and that he should meet him and speak with him at Ptolemais with all speed.

And king Demetrius saw that the land was quiet before him, and that no resistance was made to him, and he sent away all his forces, each man to his own place, except the foreign forces, which he had raised from the isles of the Gentiles: and all the forces of his fathers hated him.

And there were gathered to him all the forces which Demetrius had sent away with disgrace, and they fought against him, and he fled and was put to the rout.

And he departed thence to Gaza, and they of Gaza shut him out; and he laid siege to it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and plundered them.

And he said to Jonathan, Why have you put all this people to trouble, seeing there is no war between us?

Howbeit I will take vengeance for my nation, and for the sanctuary, and for our wives and children; because all the Gentiles are gathered to destroy us of very hatred.

But as touching Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they did great harm among the people throughout our country, we will give a hundred talents for them. And he answered him not a word,

but returned in a rage to the king, and reported to him these words, and the glory of Simon, and all that he had seen: and the king was exceeding angry.

But one Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, fell out with the high priest about the ruling of the market in the city.

But when the growing enmity between them waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s trusted followers,

Onias, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apollonius the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice,

And having received the royal mandates he came to Jerusalem, bringing nothing worthy the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant, and the rage of a savage beast.

Now while such was the state of things, it came to pass that they of Tarsus and Mallus made insurrection, because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine.

And when Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch.

For the which cause not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man.

And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city pleaded before him against Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.

and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved.

And when the multitudes were rising against him, and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began the conflict, one Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in madness, leading the attack.

But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all pell-mell upon Lysimachus and those who were with him;

But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest ill success, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen.

Now when tidings came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt; whereupon setting out from Egypt in a furious mind, he took the city by force of arms,

And Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was then turned away from the place.

and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. And having a malicious mind toward the Jews whom he had made his citizens,

And when they changed the good will they bare him a little before into ill will, because these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,

And the king fell into a rage, and commanded to heat pans and caldrons:

and if for rebuke and chastening our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet shall he again be reconciled with his own servants.

and that in me and my kindred you may stay the wrath of the Almighty, which has been justly brought upon our whole race.

But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.

setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the shameful handling of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the mode of life received from their ancestors.

For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he assayed to rob a temple and to hold down the city. Whereupon there was an onset of the multitudes, and Antiochus and his men turned to make defence with arms; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke up his camp with disgrace.

And being lifted up by his passion he thought to make the Jews suffer even for the evil-doing of those that had put him to rout. Wherefore, the judgement from heaven even now accompanying him, he gave order to his charioteer to drive without ceasing and despatch the journey; for thus he arrogantly spoke: I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews, when I come there.

But he in no wise ceased from his rude insolence; nay, still more was he filled with arrogancy, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and commanding to haste the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was racked in all the members of his body.

that the holy city, to the which he was going in haste, to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free;

But when word was brought to Maccabaeus of what was done, he gathered the leaders of the people together, and accused those men of having sold their kindred for money, by setting their enemies free to fight against them.