Bible Verses About The Afflictions of the Wicked

I haue ouerthrowe you, as God ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorah: and ye were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.

Therefore, thus wil I do vnto thee, O Israel: and because I wil doe this vnto thee, prepare to meete thy God, O Israel.

I haue cut off the nations: their towres are desolate: I haue made their streetes waste, that none shall passe by: their cities are destroyed without man and without inhabitant.

I said, Surely thou wilt feare me: thou wilt receiue instruction: so their dwelling shoulde not be destroyed howsoeuer I visited them, but they rose earely and corrupted all their workes.

Before these things were, when one came to an heape of twentie measures, there were but ten: when one came to the wine presse for to drawe out fiftie vessels out of the presse, there were but twentie.

For beholde, I will lift vp mine hand vpon them: and they shalbe a spoyle to those that serued them, and ye shall knowe, that the Lord of hostes hath sent me.

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their eares, that they should not heare.

Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, least they should heare the Lawe and the wordes which the Lord of hostes sent in his spirit by the ministerie of ye former Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes.

But with many of them God was not pleased: for they were ouerthrowen in ye wildernes.

Nowe these things are our ensamples, to the intent that we should not lust after euil things as they also lusted.

Neither bee ye idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, The people sate downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp to play.

Neither let vs commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twentie thousand.

Neither let vs tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted him, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmure ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Nowe all these things came vnto them for ensamples, and were written to admonish vs, vpon whome the endes of the world are come.

For it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you,

And turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrhe into ashes, condemned them and ouerthrewe them, and made them an ensample vnto them that after should liue vngodly,

And I gaue her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.

Beholde, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit fornication with her, into great affliction, except they repent them of their workes.

And shall stand a farre off for feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mightie citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.