100 Bible Verses About Wrath
Bible verses about Wrath
Understanding God's wrath is not meant to instill fear, but to illuminate the profound gravity of sin and the immense depth of His love and justice. By exploring these verses, we gain a clearer picture of God's character, one that is both loving and righteous. Recognizing the consequences of rejecting His grace compels us to seek His forgiveness and live in accordance with His will. It underscores the importance of repentance and the transformative power of Christ's sacrifice, which shields us from the full measure of His wrath. Through scripture, we find not condemnation, but a path towards redemption and eternal peace.
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Psalms 11:6 (KJV)
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
God's Wrath: Bible Verses on Divine Anger.
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
The king’s favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
Go, enquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this book.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
And seven days were fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.
Understanding God's wrath, as portrayed in these verses, is crucial for a balanced view of His character. It reveals not only His love and mercy, but also His righteous judgment against sin and injustice. These passages remind us that sin has consequences and that God holds humanity accountable. Reflecting on these scriptures should inspire both reverence for God's holiness and a deeper understanding of the sacrifice Jesus made to redeem us from the just penalty of sin. Instead of fearing wrath in a detached manner, we are called to examine our own lives, repent of wrongdoing, and live in obedience to God's word, thereby embracing His grace and avoiding the path that leads to destruction.