KJV King James Version
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.
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Deuteronomy 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
WEB World English Bible
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.
ASV American Standard Version
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. But Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 9
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, [and] had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
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.
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.
20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, [and] ground [it] very small, [even] until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
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כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforיָגֹ֗רְתִּיH3025 · ya.gorto fearמִפְּנֵ֤יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהָאַף֙H639 · aphface: angerוְהַ֣חֵמָ֔הH2534 · che.mahrageאֲשֶׁ֨רH834 · a.sherwhichקָצַ֧ףH7107 · qa.tsaphbe angryיְהוָ֛הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDעֲלֵיכֶ֖םH5921 · aluponלְהַשְׁמִ֣ידH8045 · sha.madto destroyאֶתְכֶ֑םH853 · et[Obj.]וַיִּשְׁמַ֤עH8085 · sha.mato hear: hearיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֵלַ֔יH413 · elto(wards)גַּ֖םH1571 · gamalsoבַּפַּ֥עַםH6471 · pa.ambeatהַהִֽוא׃H1931 · huhe/she/it
Cross-references
Exodus 32:14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.Deuteronomy 10:10And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, [and] the LORD would not destroy thee.James 5:16-17Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.Exodus 33:17And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.Exodus 32:10-11Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.Psalm 99:6Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.Nehemiah 1:2-7That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and [certain] men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.Amos 7:2-3And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.Luke 12:4-5And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.Deuteronomy 9:8Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.Psalm 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].Amos 7:5-6Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
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