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)

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)

 2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

 2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.




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

Lam. 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Lam. 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

Lam. 2:3
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

Lam. 2:6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Lam. 2:21
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

Lam. 2:22
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Lam. 3:43
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Lam. 3:66
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

Lam. 4:11
The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Lam. 4:16
The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

Lam. 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.