Psalms 78:21

78:21 When ¹  the Lord heard this, he was furious.

A fire broke out against Jacob,

and his anger flared up ²  against Israel,

Deuteronomy 29:20

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ³  will rage ⁴  against that man; all the curses ⁵  written in this scroll will fall upon him ⁶  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 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.

[78:21]  ¹ tn Heb “therefore.”

[78:21]  ² tn Heb “and also anger went up.”

[29:20]  ³ 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.

[29:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ⁶ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

[32:22]  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.”