Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the works of their hands, my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’
Lamentations 2:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn his right hand from them in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He hath cut off in his fierce anger All the horn of Israel: He hath drawn back his right hand From before the enemy, And he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, Which devoureth round about. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He has broken off in His fierce anger every horn (means of defense) of Israel. He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy. And He has burned amidst Jacob like a flaming fire consuming all around. American Standard Version (1901) He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. Common English Bible In his burning rage, he cut off each of Israel’s horns; right in front of the enemy, he withdrew his strong hand; he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire that ate up everything nearby. Catholic Public Domain Version GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Ghimel. He hath broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: and he hath kindled in Jacob as it were a flaming fire devouring round about. |
Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the works of their hands, my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.’
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
There I will cause a horn to sprout up for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.
Why do you hold back your hand; why do you keep your hand in your bosom?
All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous wrath burn like fire?
My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name his horn shall be exalted.
How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?
The strong shall become like tinder and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.
So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the fury of war; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.
I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says the Lord; I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all that is around it.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or else my wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: My anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on humans and animals, on the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.
From on high he sent fire; it went deep into my bones; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all day long.
The Lord gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger and kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: In my wrath I will make a stormy wind break out, and in my anger there shall be a deluge of rain and hailstones in wrath to destroy it.
They have blown the horn and made everything ready, but no one goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.
See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
He has raised up a mighty savior for us in the house of his child David,
His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
For a fire is kindled by my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.