Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
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- Mic 7:18 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, And passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, Because he delights in loving kindness.
- Ps 85:5 : 5 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
- Ps 103:9-9 : 9 He will not always accuse; Neither will he stay angry forever. 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor repaid us for our iniquities. 11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13 Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. 14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- Isa 42:5 : 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:
- Jer 10:24 : 24 Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
- Ps 78:38-39 : 38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, And didn't stir up all his wrath. 39 He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
- Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
- Num 16:22 : 22 They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
- Jer 38:16 : 16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
- Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath; 15 All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
- Gen 6:3 : 3 Yahweh said, "My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years."
- Zech 12:1 : 1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
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33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
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18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
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8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
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6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
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4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.
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9 Therefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's children will I contend.
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6 "For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
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2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.
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9 Don't be angry very sore, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
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16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
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5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.