Isaiah 26:20

26:20 Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms!

Close your doors behind you!

Hide for a little while,

until his angry judgment is over! ¹ 

Isaiah 60:10

60:10 Foreigners will rebuild your walls;

their kings will serve you.

Even though I struck you down in my anger,

I will restore my favor and have compassion on you. ² 

Psalms 30:5

30:5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment,

and his good favor restores one’s life. ³ 

One may experience sorrow during the night,

but joy arrives in the morning. ⁴ 

Psalms 30:2

30:2 O Lord my God,

I cried out to you and you healed me. ⁵ 

Colossians 4:17

4:17 And tell Archippus, “See to it that you complete the ministry you received in the Lord.”

Colossians 4:2

Exhortation to Pray for the Success of Paul’s Mission

4:2 Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:8

3:8 But now, put off all such things ⁶  as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

[26:20]  ¹ tn Heb “until anger passes by.”

[60:10]  ² tn Heb “in my favor I will have compassion on you.”

[30:5]  ³ tn Heb “for [there is] a moment in his anger, [but] life in his favor.” Because of the parallelism with “moment,” some understand חַיִּים (khayyim) in a quantitative sense: “lifetime” (cf. NIV, NRSV). However, the immediate context, which emphasizes deliverance from death (see v. 3), suggests that חַיִּים has a qualitative sense: “physical life” or even “prosperous life” (cf. NEB “in his favour there is life”).

[30:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the evening weeping comes to lodge, but at morning a shout of joy.” “Weeping” is personified here as a traveler who lodges with one temporarily.

[30:2]  ⁵ sn You healed me. Apparently the psalmist was plagued by a serious illness that threatened his life. See Ps 41.

[3:8]  ⁶ tn The Greek article with τὰ πάντα (ta panta) is anaphoric, referring to the previous list of vices, and has been translated here as “all such things.”