Wicked (People): Punishment of

…but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” …

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. …

…maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

…then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. …

He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—

…but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: …

See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”

Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle. …

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

…to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,

…and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. …

…he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble. …

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. …

…then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

…the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? …

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? …

For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? …

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. …

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them.

Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury:

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.

God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. …

You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.

The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

…to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.

But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.

…but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming. …

Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will raise you up to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it. …

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions. …

O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah

But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

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

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence.

As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. …

Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth. …

You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

…if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.

…that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

…to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.

Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.

Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!

Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

…and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand. …

You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments.

You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain.

All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.

Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.

The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

…but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.

The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.

A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, …

The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. …

What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.

The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short. …

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness. …

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.

If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!

The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence.

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.

Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.

A righteous man eats to his heart’s content, but the stomach of the wicked is empty.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.

He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

…for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.

For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.

Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.

A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

When the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. …

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

…but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.

Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it. …