Bible Verses About The Anger of God

All living beings that moved on the earth perished — birds, livestock, other animals, insects, and every human being,

everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life; whatever was on dry land died.

He wiped out every living thing on the surface of the ground — not only human beings, but livestock, creeping animals and birds in the air. They were wiped out from the earth; only Noach was left, along with those who were with him in the ark.

They arose early the next morning, came up to the top of the mountain and said, "Here we are, and we did sin, but now we'll go up to the place ADONAI promised."

Moshe answered, "Why are you opposing what ADONAI said? You won't succeed!

Don't go up there, because ADONAI isn't with you. If you do, your enemies will defeat you.

The 'Amalekim and the Kena'anim are there ahead of you, and you will be struck down by the sword. The reason will be that you have turned away from following ADONAI, so that ADONAI won't be with you."

But they were presumptuous and went on up toward the high parts of the hill-country, even though the ark for the covenant of ADONAI - and Moshe - stayed in the camp.

So the 'Amalekim and the Kena'anim living in that hill-country descended, struck them down and beat them back all the way to Hormah.

At your rebuke, God of Ya'akov, riders and horses lie stunned.

You are fearsome! When once you are angry, who can stand in your presence?

You pronounce sentence from heaven; the earth grows silent with fear

He sent over them his fierce anger, fury, indignation and trouble, with a company of destroying angels

to clear a path for his wrath. He did not spare them from death, but gave them over to the plague,

striking all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

"If his descendants abandon my Torah and fail to live by my rulings,

if they profane my regulations and don't obey my mitzvot,

I will punish their disobedience with the rod and their guilt with lashes.

For we are destroyed by your anger, overwhelmed by your wrath.

You have placed our faults before you, our secret sins in the full light of your presence.

All our days ebb away under your wrath; our years die away like a sigh.

Many times [God] rescued them, but they kept making plans to rebel. Thus they were brought low by their own wrongdoing.

Still he took pity on their distress whenever he heard their cry.

For their sakes he kept in mind his covenant and in his limitless grace relented,

"I hear Efrayim bemoaning himself: 'You disciplined me, and I took your discipline like a young ox not used to a yoke. Let me return, and I will return, for you are ADONAI, my God.