wrath of God
Heaven's fierce judgment
The wrath of God is divine anger and punishment, the retribution visited upon sinners by an offended deity.
The phrase appears throughout religious texts describing catastrophic judgment: plagues, floods, fire from heaven.
Extended to secular use, it describes any overwhelming destructive force: The hurricane came down on the coast like the wrath of God.
Someone who fears the wrath of God dreads ultimate consequences.
- judgment dayFinal divine assessment
- day of reckoningTime of final judgment
- final judgmentConclusive court resolution
- divine justiceSacred moral reckoning
- divine retributionPunishment delivered by deity
righteous anger · anger · punishment · apocalypse · guilt · mortal sin · mercy · eternal damnation · lake of fire · fear · sin · allegory · holiness · Armageddon · plagues of Egypt · repentance · prophecy · tribulation
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
- atonementpropitiation, substitution, reconciler, forgiveness, sin offering
- Divine Punishmentdivine retribution, smite, smiting, damnation, judgment day
- Judgment Dayjudgment day, final judgment, day of reckoning, doomsday, second coming
- religious dreadholy fear, divine judgment, damnation, hellfire, divine punishment
- Pauline theologyPaul, Romans, faith alone, Galatians, justification
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Spiritual devotion to deity
divine mercy · divine benevolence · God's love · divine grace · divine favor
wrath of Godsalvation
Deliverance from harm
divine forgiveness · redemption · eternal life · absolution · heavenly reward
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