Bible Verses About Punishment

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,

Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.

An abomination to Jehovah is every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred times , and prolonging himself for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

Therefore thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am bringing in unto them evil, That they are not able to go out from, And they have cried unto Me, And I do not hearken unto them.

And Jehovah saith unto me: Though Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My soul is not toward this people, Send from before My face, and they go out.

And it hath come to pass, When they refuse to receive the cup out of thy hand to drink, That thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do certainly drink.

For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye--ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.

And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

And the handler of the bow standeth not, And the swift with his feet delivereth not himself , And the rider of the horse delivereth not his soul.

And the courageous of heart among the mighty, Naked doth flee in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah!