The Afflictions of the Wicked are for Examples to Others

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. …

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness. …

…if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;