Bible Verses About The Punishment of the Wicked

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

And their might is firm.

In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.

If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.

He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

But with thine eyes thou lookest, And the reward of the wicked thou seest,

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity--For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!

A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

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

Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!