For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
Parallel translations
- WEB For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
- KJV For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
- NKJV For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.”
- NASB For in a very little while My indignation against you will be ended and My anger will be directed toward their destruction.”
- NLT In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them.”
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Quick answer
God's anger against his people will soon end and be redirected to destroy the oppressor. The discipline is brief; deliverance is sure.
Overview
The 'indignation' against Judah is real but temporary — 'a very little while' — after which God's anger turns to Assyria's ruin. This pattern of measured chastening followed by the enemy's overthrow displays God's fatherly purpose: he corrects his children but does not abandon them. The promise looks ahead to the day all opposition to God's people is finally judged.
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- Dan 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
- 2 Kgs 19:35And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Heb 10:37For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.
- Isa 30:30–33And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- Isa 10:33–34Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.
- Ps 37:10Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
- Isa 17:12–14Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters.
- Isa 14:24–25The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
- Isa 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- Isa 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Isa 37:36–38Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Isa 12:1–2In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Isa 31:4–9For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
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