It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” ¹  When he said this, they calmed down. ² 

Live with him for a little while ¹  until your brother’s rage subsides.

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.

But God remembered ¹  Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over ²  the earth and the waters receded.

Then Noah ¹  sent out a dove ²  to see if the waters had receded ³  from the surface of the ground.

When ¹  the dove returned to him in the evening, there was ²  a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

When these things had been accomplished ¹  and the rage of King Ahasuerus had diminished, he remembered ²  Vashti and what she had done and what had been decided ³  against her.

Stay there ¹  until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. ²  Why should I lose both of you in one day?” ³ 

The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. ¹  He touches the earth and it dissolves; ²  all who live on it mourn. The whole earth ³  rises like the River Nile, ⁴  and then grows calm ⁵  like the Nile in Egypt. ⁶ 

Phinehas took a stand and intervened, ¹  and the plague subsided.

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

Because of this the earth ¹  will quake, ²  and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth ³  will rise like the River Nile, ⁴  it will surge upward ⁵  and then grow calm, ⁶  like the Nile in Egypt. ⁷ 

When the people cried to Moses, he ¹  prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out. ² 

For very soon my fury ¹  will subside, and my anger will be directed toward their destruction.”

I too will clap my hands together, I will exhaust my rage; I the Lord have spoken.”

Then I will make their waters calm, ¹  and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. ¹  Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy ²  when I have fully vented my rage against them.

Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done. ¹ 

with three layers of large stones ¹  and one ²  layer of timber. The expense is to be subsidized ³  by the royal treasury. ⁴