Ezekiel 5:13

"Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted: and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them."

All of the ancient prophets speak in the most eloquent and frightening terms of the wrath of God. God's anger against sin is a much more terrible reality than most men suppose. The modern conception of God has reduced him to the status of a benevolent old grandpa, so indifferent to the sins raging in his presence, that he would scarcely punish anybody. Is he not a God of love? Indeed, he is; but this must also be reconciled with his unmitigated anger and intolerance against all sin.

God's being comforted when his punishment of evil is completed indicates, as Plumptre noted, that, "He rejoices in the punishment of evil for its own sake and that he rejoices that the punishment has done its proper work in leading men to repentance."[5]