Bible Verses About Wicked: Described

Now the men of S'dom were evil, committing great sins against ADONAI.

ADONAI said, "The outcry against S'dom and 'Amora is so great and their sin so serious

The land has become unclean, and this is why I am punishing it - the land itself will vomit out its inhabitants.

Moreover, ADONAI said to me, 'I have seen this people, and what a stiffnecked people they are!

You have been rebelling against ADONAI from the day I first knew you!

"He found his people in desert country, in a howling, wasted wilderness. He protected him and cared for him, guarded him like the pupil of his eye,

"'Rather, their vine is from the vine of S'dom, from the fields of 'Amora -their grapes are poisonous, their clusters are bitter;

their wine is snake poison, the cruel venom of vipers.

as the old saying has it, 'Out of the wicked comes wickedness, but I will not lay a hand on you.'

Ach'av said to Eliyahu, "My enemy! You've found me!" He answered, "Yes, I have found you; because you have given yourself over to do what is evil from ADONAI's perspective.

Now you intend to force the people from Y'hudah and Yerushalayim into subjection as your slaves; but haven't you guilty deeds of your own that you committed against ADONAI your God?

During his time of distress this same King Achaz added to his treachery against ADONAI

which you gave us through your servants the prophets when they said, 'The land which you are going to in order to take possession of it is a land defiled by the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, because of their disgusting practices, which have filled it with their filth from one end to the other.

Who can bring what is pure from something impure? No one!

How much less one loathesome and corrupt, a human being, who drinks iniquity like water.

"The wicked is in torment all his life, for all the years allotted to the tyrant.

Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity, robbers swoop down on him.

He despairs of returning from darkness -he is destined to meet the sword.

He wanders and looks for food, which isn't there. He knows the day of darkness is ready, at hand.

Distress and anguish overwhelm him, assaulting him like a king about to enter battle.

"He raises his hand against God and boldly defies Shaddai,

running against him with head held high and thickly ornamented shield.

"He lets his face grow gross and fat, and the rest of him bulges with blubber;

he lives in abandoned cities, in houses no one would inhabit, houses about to become ruins;

therefore he will not remain rich, his wealth will not endure, his produce will not bend [the grain stalks] to the earth.