You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
- BSB You withheld all Your fury; You turned from Your burning anger.
- NKJV You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.
- NASB You withdrew all Your fury; You turned away from Your burning anger.
- NLT You held back your fury. You kept back your blazing anger.
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- Ps 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
- Deut 13:17Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
- Jonah 3:9Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
- Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
- Isa 6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
- John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Exod 32:22Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
- Isa 54:7–10“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
- Exod 32:11–12Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
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