Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked: Persecuting

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, You shall not prophesy in the LORD’s name, that you not die by our hand;

therefore thus says the LORD of Hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.