Then in anger he rebukes them, terrifying them with his fierce fury.

Submit to God’s royal son, or he will become angry, and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities— for his anger flares up in an instant. But what joy for all who take refuge in him!

Don’t sin by letting anger control you. Think about it overnight and remain silent. Interlude

Psalm 6

For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.

O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage.

Arise, O Lord, in anger! Stand up against the fury of my enemies! Wake up, my God, and bring justice!

Then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the mountains shook; they quaked because of his anger.

You will throw them in a flaming furnace when you appear. The Lord will consume them in his anger; fire will devour them.

Do not turn your back on me. Do not reject your servant in anger. You have always been my helper. Don’t leave me now; don’t abandon me, O God of my salvation!

For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Psalm 38

A psalm of David, asking God to remember him.

O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage!

Because of your anger, my whole body is sick; my health is broken because of my sins.

Don’t let them get away with their wickedness; in your anger, O God, bring them down.

Destroy them in your anger! Wipe them out completely! Then the whole world will know that God reigns in Israel. Interlude

Pour out your fury on them; consume them with your burning anger.

Psalm 74

A psalm of Asaph.

O God, why have you rejected us so long? Why is your anger so intense against the sheep of your own pasture?

No wonder you are greatly feared! Who can stand before you when your anger explodes?

When the Lord heard them, he was furious. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his anger rose against Israel,

the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.

Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!

He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.

He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague.

They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

You held back your fury. You kept back your blazing anger.

Now restore us again, O God of our salvation. Put aside your anger against us once more.

Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude