How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
"He hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire"  (Lamentations 2:3).  The conception that God's anger is like a terrible fire is not merely an Old Testament metaphor.  "To the wicked God, at any time, may become a consuming fire  (Hebrews 12:29;  Deuteronomy 4:24)."[10]