Lexicon :: Strong's H639 - 'ap̄

Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted all the people said, “Amen, Amen! ” Then they knelt low and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

They refused to listen

and did not remember your wonders

you performed among them.

They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader

to return to their slavery in Egypt.[fn]

But you are a forgiving God,

gracious and compassionate,

slow to anger and abounding in faithful love,

and you did not abandon them.

They perish at a single blast from God

and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.

He removes mountains without their knowledge,

overturning them in his anger.

If only you would hide me in Sheol

and conceal me until your anger passes.

If only you would appoint a time for me

and then remember me.

His anger tears at me, and he harasses me.

He gnashes his teeth at me.

My enemy pierces me with his eyes.

You who tear yourself in anger[fn] —

should the earth be abandoned on your account,

or a rock be removed from its place?

His anger burns against me,

and he regards me as one of his enemies.

When he fills his stomach,

God will send his burning anger against him,

raining it down on him while he is eating.[fn]

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?

Does disaster[fn] come on them?

Does he apportion destruction in his anger?

as long as my breath is still in me

and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite from the family of Ram became angry. He was angry at Job because he had justified himself rather than God.

But now, because God’s anger does not punish

and he does not pay attention to transgression,[fn]

Those who have a godless heart harbor anger;

even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.

Pour out your raging anger;

look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Can you put a cord[fn] through his nose

or pierce his jaw with a hook?

After the LORD had finished speaking[fn] to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.

Then he speaks to them in his anger

and terrifies them in his wrath:

LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger;

do not discipline me in your wrath.

Rise up, LORD, in your anger;

lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;

awake for me;[fn]

you have ordained a judgment.

In all his scheming,

the wicked person arrogantly thinks,[fn]

“There’s no accountability,

since there’s no God.”

Smoke rose from his nostrils,

and consuming fire came from his mouth;

coals were set ablaze by it.[fn]

You will make them burn

like a fiery furnace when you appear;

the LORD will engulf them in his wrath,

and fire will devour them.

Do not hide your face from me;

do not turn your servant away in anger.

You have been my helper;

do not leave me or abandon me,

God of my salvation.

For his anger lasts only a moment,

but his favor, a lifetime.

Weeping may stay overnight,

but there is joy in the morning.

Refrain from anger and give up your rage;

do not be agitated ​— ​it can only bring harm.

because of the enemy’s words,[fn]

because of the pressure[fn] of the wicked.

For they bring down disaster on me

and harass me in anger.

Will they escape in spite of such sin?

God, bring down the nations in wrath.

Pour out your rage on them,

and let your burning anger overtake them.

Why have you rejected us forever, God?

Why does your anger burn

against the sheep of your pasture?

And you ​— ​you are to be feared.[fn]

When you are angry,

who can stand before you?

“Has God forgotten to be gracious?

Has he in anger withheld his compassion? ”Selah

Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious;

then fire broke out against Jacob,

and anger flared up against Israel

You withdrew all your fury;

you turned from your burning anger.

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,

slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth.

For we are consumed by your anger;

we are terrified by your wrath.

So I swore in my anger,

“They will not enter my rest.”