Our life is cut short by your anger; it fades away like a whisper.

Who has felt the full power of your anger? Who knows what fear your fury can bring?

You punish our sins by your rebukes, and like a moth you destroy what we love. Indeed we are no more than a puff of wind!

destroy them in your anger; destroy them completely. Then everyone will know that God rules in Israel, that his rule extends over all the earth.

The people of Israel said to Moses, "Then that's the end of us!

If anyone who even comes near the Tent must die, then we are all as good as dead!"

This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the LORD had said they would.

"After they had all died,

And so I was angry with those people and said, 'They are always disloyal and refuse to obey my commands.'

I was angry and made a solemn promise: 'They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!' "

With whom was God angry for forty years? With the people who sinned, who fell down dead in the desert.

We see, then, that they were not able to enter the land, because they did not believe.

Now, God has offered us the promise that we may receive that rest he spoke about. Let us take care, then, that none of you will be found to have failed to receive that promised rest.

For we have heard the Good News, just as they did. They heard the message, but it did them no good, because when they heard it, they did not accept it with faith.

Just before dawn the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw them into a panic.

Other people are selfish and reject what is right, in order to follow what is wrong; on them God will pour out his anger and fury.

There will be suffering and pain for all those who do what is evil, for the Jews first and also for the Gentiles.