God's anger, wrath of God

The Hebrew and Greek What is translated into English as “the wrath of God” (Good News Translation: “God’s anger”) has to be referred to in Bengali as judgment, punishment or whatever fits the context. In Bengali culture, anger is by definition bad and can never be predicated of God. (Source: David Clark)

In Kikuyu the whole phrase that is translated in English as “storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath” or similar is translated as “you are increasing for yourself God’s wrath.” (Source: Jan Sterk)

In Quetzaltepec Mixe it is translated with a term “that not only expresses anger, but also punishment” (source: Robert Bascom), in Western Bukidnon Manobo as “the coming punishment of God on mankind” (source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation), in Kankanaey as “God’s fearful/terrible future punishing of people” (source: Kankanaey Back Translation), in Tagbanwa as “the coming anger/hatred of God” (source: Tagbanwa Back Translation), and in Tenango Otomi as “the punishment which will come” (source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation).

See also anger.

Translation commentary on Jeremiah 32:37

For Behold see 1.6.

I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them: Compare 23.3; Deut 30.1-5.

In my anger and my wrath and in great indignation: For anger and wrath, see verse 31. Indignation is used elsewhere in Jeremiah only in 10.10 (Revised Standard Version “wrath” here and the next two occurrences); 21.5; 50.13. It actually means “anger” or “rage,” and is parallel with anger and wrath. In this context great indignation may be the strongest of the three terms in the sequence. Translators may certainly use three words if this is natural. The main thing, however, is to express how great is the anger, as in “… where I scattered them because I was so completely angry with them.”

For dwell in safety, see “dwell securely” in 23.6, where the Hebrew differs a little.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .