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Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked

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  1. then I, for my part, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you -wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemies will eat the crops.

  2. If these things don't make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins.

  3. I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze -

  4. you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit.

  5. I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted.

  6. I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy.

  7. I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

  8. You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters.

  9. I will destroy your high places, cut down your pillars for sun-worship, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols; and I will detest you.

  10. I will desolate the land, so that your enemies living in it will be astounded by it.

  11. You I will disperse among the nations, and I will draw out the sword in pursuit after you; your land will be a desolation and your cities a wasteland.

  12. As for those of you who are left, I will fill their hearts with anxiety in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will frighten them, so that they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.

  13. Yes, with no one pursuing they will stumble over each other as if fleeing the sword - you will have no power to stand before your enemies.

  14. and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korach when that group died, and the fire consumed 250 men, and they became a warning sign.

  15. "For rebellion is like the sin of sorcery, stubbornness like the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of ADONAI, he too has rejected you as king."

  16. "'Yet they disobeyed and rebelled against you, throwing your Torah behind their backs. They killed your prophets for warning them that they should return to you and committed other gross provocations.

  17. So you handed them over to the power of their adversaries, who oppressed them. Yet in the time of their trouble, when they cried out to you, you heard from heaven, and in keeping with your great compassion, you gave them saviors to save them from the power of their adversaries.

  18. So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordekhai. Then the king's anger subsided.

  19. What I see is that those who plow sin and sow trouble reap just that.

  20. Terrors overwhelm him on every side and scatter about his feet.

  21. The wicked will return to Sh'ol, all the nations that forget God.

  22. May destruction come over him unawares. May the net he concealed catch himself; may he fall into it and be destroyed.

  23. But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  24. This is why God will strike you down, seize you, pluck you from your tent and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

  25. They prepared a snare for my feet, but I am bending over [to avoid it]. They dug a pit ahead of me, but they fell into it themselves. (Selah)