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can stand: Psalms 2:12, Psalms 76:7, Psalms 90:11, Isaiah 27:4, Jeremiah 10:10, Malachi 3:2, Revelation 6:17
abide: Heb. stand up
his fury: Nahum 1:2, Deuteronomy 32:22, Deuteronomy 32:23, Isaiah 10:16, Lamentations 2:4, Lamentations 4:11, Ezekiel 30:16, Revelation 16:1, Revelation 16:8
Reciprocal: Exodus 19:18 - whole Exodus 22:24 - my wrath Exodus 24:17 - like devouring fire Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty Leviticus 26:28 - in fury Deuteronomy 4:24 - thy God Deuteronomy 9:2 - Who can stand Deuteronomy 9:3 - a consuming fire Deuteronomy 32:35 - To me Judges 10:7 - was hot 1 Kings 19:11 - and a great 2 Kings 10:4 - how then shall 2 Kings 22:13 - great 2 Chronicles 34:25 - my wrath Esther 1:12 - was the king Psalms 18:8 - fire Psalms 21:9 - the fire Psalms 47:2 - is terrible Psalms 68:2 - as wax Psalms 76:6 - both Psalms 83:14 - the flame Psalms 97:3 - General Psalms 104:32 - looketh Isaiah 9:18 - wickedness Isaiah 10:17 - devour Isaiah 13:7 - shall all Isaiah 13:9 - cruel Isaiah 30:27 - burning Isaiah 33:14 - Who among us shall dwell with the Isaiah 42:25 - he hath poured Isaiah 64:1 - that the Jeremiah 4:24 - mountains Jeremiah 7:20 - Behold Jeremiah 15:14 - a fire Jeremiah 17:4 - for Jeremiah 21:5 - with an Jeremiah 21:12 - lest Jeremiah 42:18 - As mine Jeremiah 49:19 - that shepherd Lamentations 1:13 - above Ezekiel 7:8 - pour Ezekiel 21:31 - pour Ezekiel 22:21 - and blow Ezekiel 28:22 - I am against Ezekiel 29:3 - I am Ezekiel 30:8 - when I Ezekiel 30:15 - I will pour Ezekiel 36:18 - I poured Ezekiel 39:6 - I will Daniel 7:10 - fiery Joel 2:11 - who Amos 7:4 - called Amos 8:8 - the land Amos 9:5 - toucheth Zephaniah 2:2 - before the fierce Zechariah 4:7 - O great Zechariah 8:2 - I was jealous Zechariah 14:4 - cleave Malachi 4:1 - shall burn Romans 2:8 - indignation Romans 3:5 - Is God 2 Corinthians 5:11 - the terror Hebrews 10:27 - fiery
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Who can stand before his indignation?.... No creature whatever; no man nor body of men; not Nineveh, and the inhabitants of it; nor the whole Assyrian empire:
and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? not the great men of the earth; not kings or generals of armies; not kingdoms and nations, ever so numerous and powerful; but all must be consumed by him, who is a consuming fire; see Jeremiah 10:10;
his fury is poured out like fire; or like metal that is melted by fire, and poured out by the force of it; or like fire of lightning poured out of the heavens, which is quick, powerful, and penetrating, and there is no resisting it:
and the rocks are thrown down by him; by the Lord, by his wrath and fury; kingdoms that seemed as strong and immovable as rocks and mountains are thrown down; as such have been by the force of fire bursting from the midst of them, as Etna, Vesuvius, and others.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Who can stand before His indignation? - This question appeals to our own consciences, that we cannot . It anticipates the self-conviction at every day of God’s visitation, the forerunners of the lust. The word rendered “indignation” is reserved almost exclusively to denote the wrath of God. : “Who can trust in his own righteousness, and, for the abundance of his works or consciousness of his virtues, not be in need of mercy? ‘Enter not into judgment with Thy servant, O Lord, for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified;’ and in Job it is said truly, ‘Behold He put no trust in His servants, and His Angels He charged with folly. How much less in them that dwell in houses of’ clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which ewe crushed before the moth?’ Job 4:18-19. It were needless now to prove, that man’s own deserts suffice to no one, and that we are not saved but by the grace of God, ‘for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God’ Romans 3:23. Wherefore he saith, ‘before His indignation,’ standing face to Face before Him in wrath.”
Literally, “in the Face of:” guilt cannot look in the face of man, how much less, of God. The bliss of the righteous is the punishment of the wicked, to behold God face to Face. For “whoever trusts in his own works deserves His indignation. and thinking he stands, righteously does he fall.”
His fury is poured out - נתך is used of the pouring out of God’s wrath, Jeremiah 7:20; Jer 42:18; 2 Chronicles 12:7 (as more commonly שׁפך here its native meaning is brought out the more, by adding כאש.
Like fire - , sweeping away, like a torrent of molten fire, him who presumes that be can stand before His Face, as He did the cities of the plain Genesis 19:0, the image of the everlasting fire, which shall burn up His enemies on every side. “And rocks are thrown down” Psalms 97:3; Psalms 50:3; Psalms 68:3; Psalms 18:8. The rocks are like so many towers of nature, broken down and crushed “by Him” literally, “from Him.” It needs not any act of God’s. He wills and it is done. Those who harden themselves, are crushed and broken to pieces, the whole fabric they had built for themselves and their defenses, crumbling and shivered. If then they, whose hearts are hard as rocks, and bold against all peril, and even Satan himself, whose “heart is as firm as a stone, yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone” Job 41:24, shall be crushed then, who shall abide?
