Bible Verses About The Afflictions of the Wicked

There were foolish people who suffered affliction because of their crimes and sins;

I, in turn, will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you

yes, when terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you.

they refused my counsel and despised my reproof.

So they will bear the consequences of their own way and be overfilled with their own schemes.

Don't be afraid of sudden terror or destruction caused by the wicked, when it comes;

for you can rely on ADONAI; he will keep your foot from being caught in a trap.

Therefore disaster suddenly overcomes him; unexpectedly, he is broken beyond repair.

His whole life is one of pain, and his work is full of stress; even at night his mind gets no rest. This too is pointless.

Yet the people do not turn to the one striking them, they don't seek ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

this sin will become for you a crack bulging out high on a wall, showing signs it is ready to fall; then suddenly, all at once, it breaks."

In a year and a few days more, you overconfident women will shudder, because the vintage will fail, the harvest will not come.

"In vain have I struck down your people. They would not receive correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a marauding lion.

ADONAI, your eyes look for truth. You struck them, but they weren't affected; you [nearly] destroyed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than rock, refusing to repent.

Why cry that your wound and pain are past healing? I have done these things to you because of your great wickedness, because of your many sins.

"Wail, Heshbon, for 'Ai is doomed! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Wear sackcloth and mourn, running here and there among the sheep pens. For Malkam will go into exile, together with his priests and officers.

I am bringing terror on you," says Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot, "from every side. Each of you will be driven out headlong, with no one to gather the fugitives.

Because of your filthy lewdness, because you refused to be purified when I wanted to purify you; now you will not be purified from your filth until I have satisfied my fury on you.

I will judge him with plague and with blood. I will cause torrential rain to fall on him, his troops and the many peoples with him, along with huge hailstones, fire and sulfur.

I will show my greatness and holiness, making myself known in the sight of many nations; then they will know that I am ADONAI.'

"I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, left you nothing to eat in all your villages; still you haven't returned to me," says ADONAI.

"I withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest. I made it rain on one city and not on another - one field had rain, while another with no rain dried up;

from two or three cities they would stagger to one city for water to drink, but there wasn't enough; still you haven't returned to me," says ADONAI.

"I struck your crops with hot winds and blight, your many gardens and vineyards; the cutter-worms devoured your fig and olive trees; still you haven't returned to me," says ADONAI.

"I sent a plague on you like that of Egypt, put your young men to death with the sword; let your horses be captured; and filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps; still you haven't returned to me," says ADONAI.