Bible Verses About Wicked

He declares before everyone, 'I sinned; I perverted what was right, and it gained me nothing.

[God] redeemed me from going into the pit, and now my life sees light.'

God will accomplish all these things twice, even three times, with a man,

to bring him back from the pit, so that he can enjoy the light of the living.

They may cry out, but no one answers, because of evil men's pride.

For God will not listen to empty cries; Shaddai pays no attention to them.

How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!

Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.

They are like trees planted by streams -they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.

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

For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.

For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.

Those who brag cannot stand before your eyes, you hate all who do evil,

you destroy those who tell lies, ADONAI detests men of blood and deceivers.

For in their mouths there is nothing sincere, within them are calamities, their throats are open tombs, they flatter with their tongues.

God is a righteous judge, a God whose anger is present every day.

Look how the wicked is pregnant with evil; he conceives trouble, gives birth to lies.

He makes a pit, digs it deep, and falls into the hole he made.

His mischief will return onto his own head, his violence will recoil onto his own skull.

Every scheme of the wicked in his arrogance [says], "There is no God, [so] it won't be held against me."

His ways prosper at all times. Your judgments are way up there, so he takes no notice. His adversaries? He scoffs at them all.

In his heart he thinks, "I will never be shaken; I won't meet trouble, not now or ever."

His mouth is full of curses, deceit, oppression; under his tongue, mischief and injustice.

He waits near settlements in ambush and kills an innocent man in secret; his eyes are on the hunt for the helpless.

Lurking unseen like a lion in his lair, he lies in wait to pounce on the poor, then seizes the poor and drags him off in his net.