Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked

Suddenly God shoots them down with an arrow, leaving them with wounds;

when I grew envious of the arrogant and saw how the wicked prosper.

For when their death comes, it is painless; and meanwhile, their bodies are healthy;

they don't have ordinary people's troubles, they aren't plagued like others.

So for them, pride is a necklace; and violence clothes them like a robe.

Their eyes peep out through folds of fat; evil thoughts overflow from their hearts.

They scoff and speak with malice, they loftily utter threats.

They set their mouths against heaven; their tongues swagger through the earth.

Therefore his people return here and [thoughtlessly] suck up that whole cup of water.

Then they ask, "How does God know? Does the Most High really have knowledge?"

Yes, this is what the wicked are like; those free of misfortune keep increasing their wealth.

It's all for nothing that I've kept my heart clean and washed my hands, staying free of guilt;

for all day long I am plagued; my punishment comes every morning.

If I had said, "I will talk like them,"I would have betrayed a generation of your children.

When I tried to understand all this, I found it too hard for me -

until I went into the sanctuaries of God and grasped what their destiny would be.

Indeed, you place them on a slippery slope and make them fall to their ruin.

How suddenly they are destroyed, swept away by terrors!

to clear a path for his wrath. He did not spare them from death, but gave them over to the plague,

Only keep your eyes open, and you will see how the wicked are punished.

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

But he repays them as their guilt deserves; he will cut them off with their own evil; ADONAI our God will cut them off.

productive land into salt flats, because the people living there are so wicked.

Depend on it: the evil will not go unpunished; but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

If the righteous are paid what they deserve here on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!