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Psalm 90:7
For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
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The words “consumed” and “troubled” leave little distance between God's wrath and human frailty, making this a prayer with no easy comfort.
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Psalm 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.Both psalms describe God's judgment as consuming, with human frailty exposed under his anger and correction.
Job 5:6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;Both passages speak of human trouble, though Job 5:6 does not name God's wrath as its cause.
Numbers 17:12The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!Both passages use a collective voice to describe people overwhelmed by the prospect of destruction.
Numbers 17:13Everyone who keeps approaching the LORD’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”Both passages voice communal distress over death before God, with Numbers naming fear of approaching the tabernacle.
Deuteronomy 6:15for the LORD your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.Both passages connect God's anger with destruction, though Deuteronomy gives a warning and the psalm speaks from within distress.
Job 19:11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.Both speakers describe God's wrath as directed against them, with Job speaking as an individual and the psalm speaking for a group.
Psalm 80:16It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.Both psalms describe people perishing under God's judgment, expressed as anger in Psalm 90 and rebuke in Psalm 80.
Psalm 88:7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.Both prayers address God about his wrath and describe the distress of those who bear it.
Psalm 88:16Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.Both prayers describe God's wrath as overwhelming, linking it with terror and the loss of life.
Hebrews 3:17–4:2With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?Both passages connect human mortality with God's displeasure, though Hebrews names those who sinned in the wilderness.
Romans 2:8–9but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,Both passages describe God's wrath, with the surrounding psalm and Romans connecting that wrath to human sin.
Deuteronomy 2:14–16The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were …Both passages describe people being consumed, with Deuteronomy naming a generation's death under the sentence the LORD had sworn.
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Fear of God's wrath has a place in prayer. These words come from people who face his anger and still speak to him.
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