Man is, in spirit, soul and body, a creature of the just and wrathful god.
If you are acted with an unclean, proud, carnal, wrathful spirit, who is it that dwelleth in you?
I grabbed my own blade and sunk it deep into his wrathful eye.
According to Farnell, the meaning of the epithet is to be looked for in the original conception of Erinys, which was that of an earth-goddess akin to Ge, thus naturally associated with Demeter, rather than that of a wrathful avenging deity.
Cyrus now claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings and the avenger of Bel-Merodach, who was wrathful at the impiety of Nabonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines to his capital Babylon.
