Bible Verses About Wicked

who acquit the guilty for bribes but deny justice to the righteous!

Therefore, as fire licks up the stubble, and the chaff is consumed in the flame; so their root will rot, and their flowers scatter like dust; because they have rejected the Torah of ADONAI-Tzva'ot, they have despised the word of the Holy One of Isra'el.

This is why ADONAI's anger blazed up against his people, why he stretched out his hand against them and struck them [so hard that] the hills shook, and corpses lay like trash in the streets. Even after all this, his anger remains, his upraised hand still threatens.

Even if pity is shown to the wicked, he still doesn't learn what righteousness is. In a land of uprightness he will still act wrongly and fail to see the majesty of ADONAI.

ADONAI, you raised your hand, but they still didn't see. Yet with shame they will see your zeal for the people. Yes, fire will destroy your enemies.

"Woe to the rebellious children," says ADONAI. "They make plans, but the plans are not mine; they develop alliances, but not from my Spirit, in order to pile sin upon sin.

For this is a rebellious people; they are lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of ADONAI.

They say to the seers, "Do not see!" to those who have visions, "Do not tell us the visions you have as they really are; but flatter us, fabricate illusions!

Get out of the way! Leave the path! Rid us of the Holy One of Isra'el!"

There is coming a king who will reign justly and princes who will rule uprightly.

A man will be like a refuge from the wind, like protection from a storm, like streams of water on arid ground, like a rock cliff shading a weary land.

The eyes of those seeing will not be closed, the ears of those hearing will pay close attention.

The minds of the impetuous will learn to weigh carefully, the tongues of the stutterers will speak readily and clearly.

The mean person will no longer be called generous, or the miserly said to be noble;

for the mean person will speak meanness, his heart planning evil, so that he can act godlessly, spreading error concerning ADONAI, as he lets the hungry go on starving and deprives the thirsty of drink.

The mean person's means are mean - he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor and needy with lies, even when their cause is just.

But the generous person devises generous things, and his generosity will keep him standing.

I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Ya'akov, 'It is in vain that you will seek me.' I, ADONAI, speak rightly; I say what is true.

But the wicked are like the restless sea - unable to be still, its waters toss up mud and dirt.

There is no shalom, says my God, for the wicked.

Rather, it is your own crimes that separate you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he doesn't hear.

For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with crime; your lips speak lies, your tongues utter wicked things.

No one sues with just cause, no one pleads honestly in court, they trust in empty words and say worthless things; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

They hatch viper eggs and spin spiderwebs; whoever eats their eggs dies, and the crushed egg hatches a snake.

Their webs are useless as clothing, their deeds are useless for wearing; their deeds are deeds of wickedness, their hands produce violence.