divine wrath
Heaven's fierce anger
Divine wrath is the anger or punishment of a god directed at humans for sin, disobedience, or moral transgression.
The concept appears across religions—floods, plagues, and destruction visited upon the wicked: The prophet warned of divine wrath if the people did not repent.
The phrase often carries an Old Testament flavor, evoking a God who actively intervenes to punish.
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
- fire and brimstoneWrathful divine punishment imagery
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- lake of fireFiery underworld punishment realm
- RagnarokNorse end of days
punishment · judgment · final reckoning · sin · smiting · brimstone · Nemesis · retribution · anger · vengeance · justice · perdition · Armageddon · theophany · repentance · lightning · eschatology · locusts
- divine powersimmortality, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, creation
- Good and Evilgood, evil, good versus evil, virtue and vice, morality
- biblical themescreation, messiah, covenant, salvation, redemption
- Hebrew BibleTanakh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
- Apollolyre, Delphi, laurel, sun god, oracle
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
divine wrathdivine love
Deity's unconditional affection
divine mercy · divine grace · divine compassion · divine benevolence · divine favor
divine wrathsecular law
Legal code without religious basis
civil justice · natural consequence · civil law · karma · natural consequences
divine wrathdivine blessing
Sacred favor from deity
state of grace · divine favor · salvation · redemption · beatitude