Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Parallel translations
- WEB Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
- KJV Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- NKJV Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath.
- NASB Who understands the power of Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?
- NLT Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Quick answer
Few truly grasp the seriousness of God's anger or give Him the reverence He deserves.
Overview
Moses observes that people underestimate the power of God's wrath, failing to fear Him as they ought. A right view of God's holiness should produce reverent awe. Such fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom, finds its rest in the One who saves us from wrath, Jesus (1 Thess. 1:10).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Nah 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
- Lev 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
- Rev 6:17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
- Lev 26:18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- Lev 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
- Deut 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- 2 Cor 5:11Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.
- Deut 29:20–29The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Lev 26:28then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- Luke 12:5But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!
- Ps 76:7You alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
How Psalms 90:11 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.