1508 verses about Anger

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.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.