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The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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Ex. 34:6‑7• ⁶And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
⁷Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:6‑7)

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Neh. 9:17• ¹⁷And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not. (Neh. 9:17)

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Psa. 103:8• ⁸The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. (Psa. 103:8)

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Psa. 145:8• ⁸The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. (Psa. 145:8)

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Joel 2:13• ¹³And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. (Joel 2:13)

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Jonah 4:2• ²And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. (Jonah 4:2)

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James 1:19• ¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: (James 1:19)

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Job 9:4• ⁴He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? (Job 9:4)

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Psa. 62:11• ¹¹God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. (Psa. 62:11)

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Psa. 66:3• ³Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. (Psa. 66:3)

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Psa. 147:5• ⁵Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite. (Psa. 147:5)

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Eph. 1:19‑20• ¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, (Eph. 1:19‑20)

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Num. 14:18• ¹⁸The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. (Num. 14:18)

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Job 10:14• ¹⁴If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (Job 10:14)

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Ex. 19:16‑18• ¹⁶And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
¹⁷And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
¹⁸And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. (Ex. 19:16‑18)

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Deut. 5:22‑24• ²²These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
²³And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
²⁴And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. (Deut. 5:22‑24)

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1 Kings 19:11‑13• ¹¹And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
¹²And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
¹³And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? (1 Kings 19:11‑13)

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Job 38:1• ¹Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, (Job 38:1)

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Psa. 18:7‑15• ⁷Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
⁸There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
⁹He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
¹²At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
¹³The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
¹⁴Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
¹⁵Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. (Psa. 18:7‑15)

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Psa. 50:3• ³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. (Psa. 50:3)

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Psa. 97:2‑5• ²Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
³A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
⁴His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
⁵The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. (Psa. 97:2‑5)

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Psa. 104:3• ³Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: (Psa. 104:3)

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Isa. 19:1• ¹The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. (Isa. 19:1)

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Isa. 66:15• ¹⁵For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. (Isa. 66:15)

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Dan. 7:13• ¹³I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. (Dan. 7:13)

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Hab. 3:5‑15• ⁵Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
⁶He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
⁷I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
⁸Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
⁹Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
¹⁰The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
¹¹The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
¹²Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
¹³Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.
¹⁴Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
¹⁵Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. (Hab. 3:5‑15)

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Zech. 9:14• ¹⁴And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. (Zech. 9:14)

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Matt. 26:64• ⁶⁴Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. (Matt. 26:64)

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Rev. 1:7• ⁷Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Rev. 1:7)

• The stronger the feeling of God against that which destroys His own glory, the more worthy is it that He should be slow to act on His indignation, as we should be for quite different reasons. Indeed slowness to anger is ordinarily the proof of moral greatness, though there are extreme cases where waiting would bespeak want of right feeling. Scripture shows us both the rule and the exceptions. (“Nahum 1” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear the guilty: Jehovah,—his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.