100 Bible Verses About Wrath of God

Bible verses about Wrath of God

Exploring the concept of God's wrath through scripture is not meant to instill fear, but to deepen our understanding of His holiness and justice. By honestly confronting these verses, we gain a more complete picture of God's character – His love, mercy, and unwavering commitment to righteousness. Understanding God's wrath highlights the seriousness of sin and the profound need for redemption. It underscores the immense sacrifice of Jesus Christ and motivates us to turn away from darkness and embrace the light of His grace. Delving into these scriptures can ultimately draw us closer to God, fostering a greater appreciation for His saving love and the path to eternal life.

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Isaiah 9:12 (KJV)

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

God's Wrath: Exploring Bible Verses and Judgement

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

Isaiah 51:17KJV

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

Psalms 89:38KJV

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:

Isaiah 30:27KJV

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

2 Chronicles 34:24KJV

And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

1 Kings 16:33KJV

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

Psalms 75:8KJV

Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Psalms 59:5KJV

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Psalms 94:13KJV

And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

Deuteronomy 29:21KJV

And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

Isaiah 30:30KJV

For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

Exodus 9:15KJV

But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Leviticus 8:17KJV

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 2:15KJV

And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Isaiah 66:24KJV

Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:24KJV

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Psalms 83:15KJV

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

2 Samuel 4:11KJV

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

Jeremiah 7:15KJV

Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Jeremiah 9:9KJV

and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

Numbers 25:9YLT

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

Jeremiah 10:22KJV

Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

2 Samuel 3:29KJV

The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jeremiah 6:29KJV

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

Leviticus 26:31KJV

And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.

2 Kings 10:17KJV

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

Leviticus 26:39KJV

And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

Joshua 10:35KJV

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Isaiah 27:11KJV

Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 5:25KJV

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

Isaiah 34:5KJV

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.

Isaiah 28:18KJV

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

Psalms 101:8KJV

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Exodus 32:19KJV

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.

Numbers 16:46KJV

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 15:36KJV

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

Isaiah 34:2KJV

When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 76:9KJV

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

Isaiah 9:5KJV

As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Isaiah 64:2KJV

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

Psalms 18:7KJV

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Genesis 49:7KJV

For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

Isaiah 63:4KJV

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Job 20:29KJV

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:16KJV

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:12KJV

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 13:9KJV

Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

1 Samuel 4:8KJV

For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:25KJV

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:24KJV

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:25KJV

And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

Isaiah 34:9KJV

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

Isaiah 5:29KJV

And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

Exodus 8:24KJV

An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

Proverbs 17:11KJV

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.

Psalms 59:13KJV

Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:18KJV

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Psalms 7:12KJV

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Psalms 34:21KJV

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:20KJV

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.

2 Samuel 12:11KJV

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.

Jeremiah 4:4KJV

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:12KJV

And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

Exodus 7:18KJV

The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

Isaiah 24:19KJV

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 9:17KJV

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:17KJV

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Psalms 137:9KJV

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

Isaiah 34:6KJV

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Psalms 109:14KJV

And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

Deuteronomy 9:20KJV

And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 1:16KJV

I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 4:26KJV

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

Isaiah 28:2KJV

And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

Exodus 14:28KJV

The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the Lord; and he slew him.

1 Chronicles 2:3KJV

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

Psalms 110:5KJV

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

Judges 20:48KJV

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalms 58:10KJV

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Numbers 16:22KJV

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Deuteronomy 32:33KJV

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

Psalms 68:21KJV

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isaiah 10:17KJV

Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

Psalms 135:10KJV

One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

Numbers 7:22KJV

Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Jeremiah 1:14KJV

And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

Isaiah 10:26KJV

They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

Numbers 16:33KJV

Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

Job 41:20KJV

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Deuteronomy 32:35KJV

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Psalms 109:18KJV

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

Psalms 106:18KJV

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

Deuteronomy 28:53KJV

For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Isaiah 66:16KJV

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:16KJV

The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

Deuteronomy 28:22KJV

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

Psalms 77:17KJV

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Psalms 7:13KJV

And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Deuteronomy 7:2KJV

For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

Exodus 12:23KJV

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Psalms 52:5KJV

Understanding the Bible's verses on the wrath of God is crucial for a balanced theological perspective. These passages, while potentially unsettling, reveal the seriousness of sin and God's unwavering commitment to justice and holiness. They underscore the consequences of rejecting God's offer of grace and the reality of accountability. Reflecting on these verses should not inspire fear alone, but a deeper appreciation for God's patience, mercy, and the profound sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We are called to examine our own lives, repent of sin, and live in a manner that is pleasing to God, thereby avoiding the consequences of His wrath and embracing His boundless love and forgiveness offered through faith in Christ. Ultimately, these verses point us toward the importance of seeking reconciliation with God and living a life dedicated to His will.