1508 verses about Anger

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”

“Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

If a man doesn’t relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.

Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.

For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.