Bible Verses About The Afflictions of the Wicked: Are for examples to others

Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:

Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

And they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.

I have destroyed the nations, and their towers are beaten down: I have made their ways desert, so that there is none that passeth by: their cities are desolate, there is not a man remaining, nor any inhabitant.

I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction: and her dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have visited her: but they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.

But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.

Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly,