Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Parallel translations
- KJV Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- BSB Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
- 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.
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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).
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Cross-references · 12
- Nah 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
- Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
- Lev 26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Rev 6:17for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”
- Lev 26:18“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
- Lev 26:21“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
- Deut 28:59then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
- 2 Cor 5:11Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God; and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
- Deut 29:20–29Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Lev 26:28then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Luke 12:5But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
- Ps 76:7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
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