Happiness of the Wicked: Often Interrupted by Judgments

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe plague.

Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. …

Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.