emotional states: displeasure, annoyance, resentment, rage, fury, and so forth. In Hebrew too there are a variety of words for this general kind of emotional reaction, which the Old Testament uses in describing both humans and God. Although it would be possible in English and in Hebrew to trace out all the subtle differences among these related terms, for our purposes there is no need to do so. The point remains that God is frequently described in Scripture as having emotions associated with anger