Lexicon :: Strong's H2740 - ḥārôn

“In the greatness of Your majesty You overthrow and annihilate those [adversaries] who rise [in rebellion] against You;

You send out Your fury, and it consumes them like chaff.

However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath which was kindled against Judah because of all the [fn]despicable acts with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

“When he fills his belly,

God will send His fierce anger on him

And will rain it upon him while he is eating.

Then He will speak to them in His [profound] anger

And terrify them with His displeasure, saying,

Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],

He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

Pour out Your indignation on them,

And let [the fierceness of] Your burning anger overtake them.

He sent upon them His burning anger,

His fury and indignation and distress,

A band of angels of destruction [among them].

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,

You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Your fierce wrath has swept over me;

Your terrors have destroyed me.

Listen carefully, the day of the LORD is coming,

Cruel, with wrath and raging anger,

To make the land a horror [of devastation];

And He shall exterminate its sinners from it.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;

And the earth will be shaken from its place

At the wrath of the LORD of hosts

In the day of His burning anger.

“For this reason, put on sackcloth [for mourning],

Lament (mourn with expressions of grief for the dead) and wail,

For the fierce anger of the LORD

Has not turned back from us.”

I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness,

And all its cities were pulled down

Before the [presence of the] LORD, before His fierce anger.

“They have planted wheat but have reaped thorns;

They have exhausted themselves but without profit.

So be ashamed of your harvest

Because of the fierce and raging anger of the LORD.”

And the peaceful folds are devastated and made silent

Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

The fierce (righteous) anger of the LORD will not turn back

Until He has fulfilled and until He has accomplished

The intent of His heart (mind);

In the latter days you will understand this.

‘So I will cause Elam to be shattered (dismayed) before their enemies

And before those who seek their lives;

And I will bring disaster on them,

Even My fierce anger,’ says the LORD.

‘And I will send the sword after them

Until I have consumed them.

“Come out of her midst, My people,

And each of you [escape and] save yourself

From the fierce anger of the LORD.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass this way?

Look and see if there is any pain like my pain

Which was severely dealt out to me,

Which the LORD has inflicted [on me] on the day of His fierce anger.

The LORD has fulfilled His wrath;

He has poured out His fierce anger

And has kindled a fire in Zion

That has consumed her foundations.

‘They have blown the trumpet and have made everything ready, but no one is going to the battle, for My wrath is against all their multitude [of people].

I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;

I will not return to Ephraim to destroy him again.

For I am God and not man, the Holy One in your midst [who will not revoke My covenant],

And I will not come in wrath or enter the city [in judgment].

Who can stand before His indignation [His great wrath]?

And who can stand up and endure the fierceness of His anger?

His wrath is poured out like fire

And the rocks are destroyed by Him.

Before the decree takes effect [and the time for repentance is lost]—

The day passes like the chaff [whirled by the wind]—

Before the burning and fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you,

Before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you.

“Therefore [you of the godly remnant of Judah, patiently] wait for Me,” declares the LORD,

“[Wait] for the day when I rise up as a witness [against the nations].

For it is My decision and My right to gather the nations,

To assemble kingdoms,

To pour out on them My indignation,

All [the heat of] My burning anger;

For [in that day] all the earth shall be consumed

By the fire of My zeal.