Wicked (People): Punishment of
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Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Genesis 3:16–19
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” / And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. / Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 4:7
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
Genesis 6:3, 7, 12, 13
So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.” / So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.” / And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exodus 32:33–35
The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. / Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.” / And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
Exodus 34:7
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Leviticus 26:14, 16–39
If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, / then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. / Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
Numbers 15:31
He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
Deuteronomy 7:9, 10
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments. / But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
Deuteronomy 11:26, 28
See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse— / but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.
Deuteronomy 28:15–68
If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: / You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. / Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 30:15, 19
See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster. / I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,
Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”
1 Samuel 3:11–14
Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle. / On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end. / I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
1 Samuel 12:25
But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”
2 Samuel 3:39
And I am weak this day, though anointed as king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too fierce for me. May the LORD repay the evildoer according to his evil!”
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.
2 Samuel 22:27, 28
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd. / You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
2 Samuel 23:6, 7
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand. / The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”
1 Kings 21:20, 21
When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD. / This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.
1 Chronicles 10:13, 14
So Saul died for his unfaithfulness to the LORD, because he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, / and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
1 Chronicles 15:13
It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”
1 Chronicles 28:9
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
2 Chronicles 15:2
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Job 4:8, 9
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. / By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
Job 5:3, 14
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. / They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Job 8:20, 22
Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers. / Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Job 10:14, 15
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity. / If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
Job 15:20–24, 28–30
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. / Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him. / He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
Job 18:5–21
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow. / The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out. / His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
Job 19:29
then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”
Job 20:5–29
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? / Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, / he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Job 21:7–33
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? / Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes. / Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
Job 27:8–23
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? / Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him? / Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
Job 31:3
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
Job 34:22
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
Job 36:12, 17
But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge. / But now you are laden with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice have seized you.
Psalm 1:4–6
Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. / Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. / For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 2:4, 5, 9
The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them. / Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury: / You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
Psalm 5:5
The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Psalm 7:11–13
God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day. / If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow. / He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
Psalm 9:5, 17
You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever. / The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
Psalm 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Psalm 11:6
On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
Psalm 18:14, 26, 27
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them. / to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd. / For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
Psalm 21:9, 10
You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them. / You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
Psalm 28:4, 5
Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve. / Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.
Psalm 32:10
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
Psalm 34:16, 21
But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth. / Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.
Psalm 36:12
There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.
Psalm 37:1, 2, 9, 10, 13–22, 34–38
Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong. / For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants. / For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.
Psalm 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Psalm 52:5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
Psalm 55:19, 23
God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God. / But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
Psalm 56:7
In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.
Psalm 58:6–9
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions. / May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted. / Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Psalm 59:5, 8
O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah / But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.
Psalm 62:3
How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
Psalm 64:7, 8
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. / They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Psalm 68:1, 2, 6, 21
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A song. God arises. His enemies are scattered, and those who hate Him flee His presence. / As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God. / God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Psalm 73:2–21, 27
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped. / For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. / They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
Psalm 75:8, 10
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs. / “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
Psalm 78:1–67
A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; listen to the words of my mouth. / I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning, / that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
Psalm 89:10, 31, 32
You crushed Rahab like a carcass; You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm. / if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments, / I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
Psalm 91:8
You will only see it with your eyes and witness the punishment of the wicked.
Psalm 92:7, 9
that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed. / For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
Psalm 94:13, 23
to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. / He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
Psalm 97:3
Fire goes before Him and consumes His foes on every side.
Psalm 101:8
Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
Psalm 104:35
May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!
Psalm 106:18, 43
Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked. / Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.
Psalm 107:17, 34
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction. / and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
Psalm 109:6–19
Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand. / When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin. / May his days be few; may another take his position.
Psalm 119:21, 118, 119, 155
You rebuke the arrogant—the cursed who stray from Your commandments. / You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain. / All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
Psalm 129:4
The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
Psalm 139:19
O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
Psalm 145:20
The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
Psalm 146:9
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
Psalm 147:6
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
Proverbs 2:22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
Proverbs 6:12–15
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, / winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers. / With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Proverbs 10:3, 6–8, 24, 25, 27–31
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked. / Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. / A wise heart will receive commandments, but foolish lips will come to ruin.
Proverbs 11:3, 5–8, 19, 21, 23, 31
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them. / The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness. / The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
Proverbs 12:2, 3, 7
The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil. / A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted. / The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
Proverbs 13:2, 5, 6, 9, 21, 25
From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things, but the desire of the faithless is violence. / The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace. / Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
Proverbs 14:12, 19, 32
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. / The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. / The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
Proverbs 16:4, 5, 25
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster. / Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished. / There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Proverbs 18:3
With a wicked man comes contempt as well, and shame is accompanied by disgrace.
Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.
Proverbs 21:12, 15, 16
The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin. / Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity. / The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
Proverbs 22:5, 23
Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them. / for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who rob them.
Proverbs 24:20, 22
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished. / For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?
Proverbs 26:10
Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or passerby.
Proverbs 28:14, 18
Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble. / He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
Proverbs 29:1, 16
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery. / When the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 7:17
Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
Ecclesiastes 8:12, 13
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence. / Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Isaiah 2:19
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Isaiah 5:11–14, 24
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. / At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands. / Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
Isaiah 10:3
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
Isaiah 13:8, 9, 11
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear. / Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it. / I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
Isaiah 24:17, 18
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth. / Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Isaiah 26:21
For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
Isaiah 28:18–22
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it. / As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror. / Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.