"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is the most famous sermon of the eighteenth-century American preacher, writer, and theologian Jonathan Edwards. It is seen as a key example of the Puritan jeremiad, and it catalyzed the religious revival in the American colonies known as the First Great Awakening.
Following a highly organized structure, Edwards warns the congregants of his New England church that they are dangling over the pit of hell like spiders above a fire, utterly helpless but for the providence of a wrathful God. The first half of the sermon is an exegesis of Deuteronomy 32:35, explaining in numbered points how the ancient Israelites' sin put them in danger of separation from...
