Nahum 1:2

New American Bible - revised edition

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord, an avenger is the Lord, full of wrath; The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and rages against his enemies;

Cross References

Job 20:23

When he has filled his belly, God shall send against him the fury of his wrath and rain down his missiles upon him.

Psalm 94:1

Lord, avenging God, avenging God, shine forth!

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Exodus 34:14

You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.

Exodus 34:7

continuing his love for a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion, and sin; yet not declaring the guilty guiltless, but bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on children and children’s children to the third and fourth generation!

Isaiah 42:13

The Lord goes forth like a warrior, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; He shouts out his battle cry, against his enemies he shows his might:

Isaiah 51:17

Wake up, wake up! Arise, Jerusalem, You who drank at the Lord’s hand the cup of his wrath; Who drained to the dregs the bowl of staggering!

Isaiah 51:20

Your children lie helpless at every street corner like antelopes in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 66:15

For see, the Lord will come in fire, his chariots like the stormwind; To wreak his anger in burning rage and his rebuke in fiery flames.

Jeremiah 25:15

For thus said the Lord, the God of Israel, to me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and have all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.

Jeremiah 28:8

In the past, the prophets who came before you and me prophesied war, disaster, and pestilence against many lands and mighty kingdoms.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he keep his wrath forever, will he hold his grudge to the end?” This is what you say; yet you do all the evil you can. Judah and Israel.

Jeremiah 36:7

Perhaps they will present their supplication before the Lord and will all turn back from their evil way; for great is the anger and wrath with which the Lord has threatened this people.”

Jeremiah 4:4

Be circumcised for the Lord, remove the foreskins of your hearts, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Or else my anger will break out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of your evil deeds.

Jeremiah 50:15

raise the war cry against it on every side. It surrenders, its bastions fall, its walls are torn down: This is retribution from the Lord! Take retribution on her, as she has done, do to her; for she sinned against the Lord.

Lamentations 4:11

The Lord has exhausted his anger, poured out his blazing wrath; He has kindled a fire in Zion that has consumed her foundations.

Ezekiel 36:6

Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: Thus says the Lord God: See! in my jealous fury I speak, because you endured the reproach of the nations.

Ezekiel 38:18

But on that day, the day Gog invades the land of Israel—oracle of the Lord God—my fury will flare up in my anger,

Ezekiel 38:19

and in my jealousy, with fiery wrath, I swear on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 39:25

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and take pity on the whole house of Israel; I am zealous for my holy name.

Ezekiel 5:13

Thus my anger will spend itself; I will vent my wrath against them until I am satisfied. Then they will know that I the Lord spoke in my passion when I spend my wrath upon them.

Ezekiel 6:12

Those far off shall die of disease, those nearby shall fall by the sword, and those who survive and are spared shall perish by starvation; thus will I spend my fury upon them.

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I in turn will act furiously: my eye will not spare, nor will I take pity. Even if they cry out in a loud voice for me to hear, I shall not listen to them.

Joel 2:18

Then the Lord grew jealous for his land and took pity on his people.

Leviticus 26:28

I will continue in my hostile rage toward you, and I myself will discipline you for your sins sevenfold,

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like you, who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not persist in anger forever, but instead delights in mercy,

Zechariah 1:14

The angel who spoke with me then said to me, Proclaim: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion intensely jealous.

Zechariah 8:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am intensely jealous for Zion, stirred to jealous wrath for her.

Numbers 25:11

Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his being as jealous among them as I am; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites in my jealousy.

Romans 12:19

Beloved, do not look for revenge but leave room for the wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Romans 13:4

for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord, your God, is a consuming fire, a jealous God. God’s Fidelity and Love.

Deuteronomy 7:10

but who repays with destruction those who hate him; he does not delay with those who hate him, but makes them pay for it.

Hebrews 10:30

We know the one who said: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay,” and again: “The Lord will judge his people.”

Joshua 24:19

Joshua in turn said to the people, “You may not be able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God; he is a passionate God who will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,