Psalm 37:10
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10 Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.(A)
Job 24:24
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24 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;[a]
they are cut off like the heads of grain.(A)
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- 24.24 Gk: Heb like all others
Job 7:10
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10 they return no more to their houses,
nor do their places know them any more.(A)
Revelation 6:10-11
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10 they cried out with a loud voice, “Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long will it be before you judge and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?”(A) 11 They were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed.(B)
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1 Peter 4:7
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7 The end of all things is near;[a] therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.(A)
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- 4.7 Or is at hand
Luke 16:27-28
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27 He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’
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Psalm 107:42-43
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42 The upright see it and are glad,
and all wickedness stops its mouth.(A)
43 Let those who are wise pay attention to these things
and consider the steadfast love of the Lord.(B)
Psalm 103:16
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16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
Psalm 52:5
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah(A)
Psalm 37:35-36
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Hebrews 10:36-37
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36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.(A) 37 For yet
“in a very little while,
the one who is coming will come and will not delay,(B)
Luke 12:20-21
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20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A) 21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”(B)
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Isaiah 14:16-19
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16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,(A)
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”(B)
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb,
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like loathsome carrion,[a]
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the Pit
like a corpse trampled underfoot.(C)
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- 14.19 Cn Compare Gk: Heb like a loathed branch
Psalm 58:10-11
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10 The righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done;
they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.(A)
11 People will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges[a] on earth.”(B)
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- 58.11 Or there are gods who judge
Esther 7:10-8:1
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10 So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
Esther Saves the Jews
8 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.(A)
Psalm 73:18-20
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Psalm 49:10
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10 When we look at the wise, they die;
fool and dolt perish together
and leave their wealth to others.(A)
Job 20:8-9
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8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(A)
9 The eye that saw them will see them no more,
nor will their place behold them any longer.(B)
Job 14:10
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
Job 7:21
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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you will seek me, but I shall not be.”(A)
2 Kings 9:34-37
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34 Then he went in and ate and drank; he said, “See to that cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”(A) 35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36 When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel;(B) 37 the corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung on the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”(C)
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2 Kings 9:25
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25 Jehu said to his aide Bidkar, “Lift him out and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember when you and I rode side by side behind his father Ahab how the Lord uttered this oracle against him:(A)
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1 Samuel 25:38-39
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38 About ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the case of Nabal’s insult to me and has kept back his servant from evil; the Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail to make her his wife.(A)
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