Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ¹  will rage ²  against that man; all the curses ³  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁴  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 32:16

32:16 They made him jealous with other gods, ⁶ 

they enraged him with abhorrent idols. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 32:22

32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol; ⁸ 

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

Ezekiel 36:5

36:5 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’

Zephaniah 1:18

1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them

in the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.

The whole earth ⁹  will be consumed by his fiery wrath. ¹⁰ 

Indeed, ¹¹  he will bring terrifying destruction ¹²  on all who live on the earth.” ¹³ 

Zephaniah 3:8

3:8 Therefore you must wait patiently ¹⁴  for me,” says the Lord,

“for the day when I attack and take plunder. ¹⁵ 

I have decided ¹⁶  to gather nations together

and assemble kingdoms,

so I can pour out my fury on them –

all my raging anger.

For ¹⁷  the whole earth will be consumed

by my fiery anger.

¹ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

² tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

³ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

⁴ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

⁵ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

⁶ tc Heb “with strange (things).” The Vulgate actually supplies diis (“gods”).

⁷ tn Heb “abhorrent (things)” (cf. NRSV). A number of English versions understand this as referring to “idols” (NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV), while NLT supplies “acts.”

⁸ tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

⁹ tn Or “land” (cf. NEB). This same word also occurs at the end of the present verse.

¹⁰ tn Or “passion”; traditionally, “jealousy.”

¹¹ tn Or “for.”

¹² tn Heb “complete destruction, even terror, he will make.”

¹³ tn It is not certain where the Lord’s words end and the prophet’s words begin. It is possible that Zephaniah begins speaking in the middle of v. 17 or at the beginning of v. 18 (note the third person pronouns referring to the Lord).

¹⁴ tn The second person verb form (“you must wait patiently”) is masculine plural, indicating that a group is being addressed. Perhaps the humble individuals addressed earlier (see 2:3) are in view. Because of Jerusalem’s sin, they must patiently wait for judgment to pass before their vindication arrives.

¹⁵ tn Heb “when I arise for plunder.” The present translation takes עַד (’ad) as “plunder.” Some, following the LXX, repoint the term עֵד (’ed) and translate, “as a witness” (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV). In this case the Lord uses a legal metaphor to picture himself as testifying against his enemies. Adele Berlin takes לְעַד (lÿ’ad) in a temporal sense (“forever”) and translates “once and for all” (Zephaniah [AB 25A], 133).

¹⁶ tn Heb “for my decision is.”

¹⁷ tn Or “certainly.”