Anger imagery uses heat, burning, kindling, smoking nostrils, or poured-out fury language to picture moral displeasure, divine judgment, or sinful human provocation.
Anger imagery uses heat, burning, kindling, smoking nostrils, or poured-out fury language to picture moral displeasure, divine judgment, or sinful human provocation.
A moral-heat motif in which anger, wrath, heat, kindling, burning, smoking nostrils, or fury poured out signifies provoked displeasure, covenant judgment, righteous indignation, uncontrolled sin, or warned restraint in human anger.
These examples show how Anger, Wrath, Heat, and Burning-Nose Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
the anger of the LORD was kindled
Kindled-anger imagery presents divine displeasure as fire-like moral heat.
the fire of the LORD burnt among them
Fire imagery externalizes divine anger against complaining.
his jealousy shall smoke against that man
Smoking-jealousy imagery intensifies covenant wrath against apostasy.
smoke out of his nostrils
Smoking-nostrils imagery portrays the LORD as warrior delivering his servant.
when his wrath is kindled but a little
Kindled-wrath imagery warns kings to submit before judgment burns forth.
there went up a smoke out of his nostrils
Anthropomorphic smoke imagery presents divine anger in storm-warrior terms.
grievous words stir up anger
Stirring-up-anger imagery treats anger as a response intensified by speech.
his lips are full of indignation
Indignation imagery depicts the LORD approaching in judgment against his enemies.
his fury is poured out like fire
Poured-out fury and fire imagery declare the irresistible force of divine wrath.
Be ye angry, and sin not
Anger language is ethically bounded so that moral heat does not become sin.
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