Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked

But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble asothermen; Neither are they plagued likeothermen.

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a fullcupare drained by them.

And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked.

When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Thoughhandjoinin hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth; How much more the wicked and the sinner!