Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'anger' occurs 347 times in the standard works.

85 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'anger' in the standard works and contain 24.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 37 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 11:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 32:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 85:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 7:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Lam. 2:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 11:28-12:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 9:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 25:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 35:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 49:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 25:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 32:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

 9:18 And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.




Deut. 29:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 29:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 78:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 103:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 10:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 229 191 420
Gen. 5 9 14
Ex. 4 15 19
Lev. 0 27 27
Num. 11 17 28
Deut. 17 27 44
Josh. 3 3 6
Judg. 9 1 10
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 3 4 7
1 Kgs. 10 3 13
2 Kgs. 9 0 9
1 Chr. 1 3 4
2 Chr. 6 5 11
Neh. 2 2 4
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 5 3 8
Ps. 25 11 36
Prov. 8 12 20
Eccl. 1 2 3
Isa. 23 13 36
Jer. 36 9 45
Lam. 11 1 12
Ezek. 13 15 28
Dan. 2 1 3
Hosea 5 2 7
Joel 1 1 2
Amos 1 0 1
Obad. 0 2 2
Jonah 2 0 2
Micah 2 0 2
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 2 0 2
Zeph. 4 0 4
Zech. 1 1 2
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 5 39 44
BM 89 21 110
DC 21 10 31
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 347 261 608

Deut. 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

Deut. 4:25
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Deut. 5:14
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Deut. 6:15
(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Deut. 7:4
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

Deut. 9:18
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

Deut. 9:19
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

Deut. 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Deut. 10:19
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deut. 13:17
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

Deut. 14:21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deut. 14:29
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Deut. 16:11
And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

Deut. 16:14
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Deut. 17:15
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

Deut. 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

Deut. 23:20
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deut. 24:14
Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Deut. 24:17
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

Deut. 24:19
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Deut. 24:20
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deut. 24:21
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deut. 25:5
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Deut. 26:11
And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.

Deut. 26:12
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

Deut. 26:13
Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

Deut. 27:19
Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deut. 28:43
The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

Deut. 29:11
Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

Deut. 29:20
The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Deut. 29:22
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

Deut. 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Deut. 29:24
Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Deut. 29:27
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

Deut. 29:28
And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

Deut. 31:12
Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Deut. 31:16
And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Deut. 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Deut. 31:29
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Deut. 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Deut. 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Deut. 32:22
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.