Bible Verses About The, Are Compared To Wicked

while their inhabitants, shorn of power, are disheartened and ashamed, weak as grass, frail as plants, like grass on the rooftops or grain scorched by the east wind.

"An empty man can gain understanding, even if he was born like a wild donkey.

Like a dream he flies off and is not found again; like a vision in the night he is chased away.

to make them like straw in the wind, like chaff carried off by a storm?

Not so the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind.

They are like lions eager to tear the prey, like young lions crouching in ambush.

At your appearing, you will make them like a fiery furnace. ADONAI will swallow them up in his anger; fire will consume them.

Many bulls surround me, wild bulls of Bashan close in on me.

for soon they will wither like grass and fade like the green in the fields.

I have seen a wicked man wielding great power, flourishing like a shade tree in its native soil.

But people, even rich ones, will live only briefly; then, like animals, they will die.

Their venom is like snake's venom; they are like a serpent that stops its ears,

Drive them away as smoke is driven away; like wax melting in the presence of a fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.

My God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff driven by the wind.

that when the wicked sprout like grass, and all who do evil prosper, it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,

The people who make them will become like them, along with everyone who trusts in them.

They surrounded me like bees but were extinguished [as quickly] as a fire in thorns; in the name of ADONAI I cut them down.

You discard the wicked of the earth like slag; this is why I love your instruction.

When the storm has passed, the wicked are gone; but the righteous are firmly established forever.

Just as a dog returns to his vomit, a fool repeats his folly.

Like silver slag overlaid on a clay pot are lips that burn [with friendship] over a hating heart.

for you will be like an oak whose leaf fades, like a garden without any water.

The anger of ADONAI-Tzva'ot is burning up the land; the people, too, are fuel for the fire - no one spares even his brother.

But you are discarded, unburied, like a loathed branch, clothed like the slain who were pierced by the sword, then fall to the stones inside a pit, like a corpse to be trampled underfoot.

Look, if Adonai ELOHIM helps me, who will dare to condemn me? Here, they are all falling apart like old, moth-eaten clothes.