10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more;(A)
    though you look for them, they will not be found.

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24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;(A)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;(B)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.(C)

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10 He will never come to his house again;
    his place(A) will know him no more.(B)

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10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long,(A) Sovereign Lord,(B) holy and true,(C) until you judge the inhabitants of the earth(D) and avenge our blood?”(E) 11 Then each of them was given a white robe,(F) and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,[a] were killed just as they had been.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:11 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in 12:10; 19:10.

The end of all things is near.(A) Therefore be alert and of sober mind(B) so that you may pray.

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42 The upright see and rejoice,(A)
    but all the wicked shut their mouths.(B)

43 Let the one who is wise(C) heed these things
    and ponder the loving deeds(D) of the Lord.

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16 the wind blows(A) over it and it is gone,
    and its place(B) remembers it no more.

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Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
    He will snatch you up and pluck(A) you from your tent;
    he will uproot(B) you from the land of the living.(C)

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35 I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
    flourishing(A) like a luxuriant native tree,
36 but he soon passed away and was no more;
    though I looked for him, he could not be found.(B)

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36 You need to persevere(A) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(B) 37 For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming(C) will come
    and will not delay.”[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:37 Isaiah 26:20; Hab. 2:3

27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them,(A) so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”(D)

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16 Those who see you stare at you,
    they ponder your fate:(A)
“Is this the man who shook(B) the earth
    and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(C)
    who overthrew(D) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”(E)

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
    each in his own tomb.(F)
19 But you are cast out(G) of your tomb
    like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(H)
    with those pierced by the sword,(I)
    those who descend to the stones of the pit.(J)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,

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10 The righteous will be glad(A) when they are avenged,(B)
    when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.(C)
11 Then people will say,
    “Surely the righteous still are rewarded;(D)
    surely there is a God who judges the earth.”(E)

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10 So they impaled(A) Haman(B) on the pole(C) he had set up for Mordecai.(D) Then the king’s fury subsided.(E)

The King’s Edict in Behalf of the Jews

That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman,(F) the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.

18 Surely you place them on slippery ground;(A)
    you cast them down to ruin.(B)
19 How suddenly(C) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away(D) by terrors!
20 They are like a dream(E) when one awakes;(F)
    when you arise, Lord,
    you will despise them as fantasies.(G)

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10 For all can see that the wise die,(A)
    that the foolish and the senseless(B) also perish,
    leaving their wealth(C) to others.(D)

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Like a dream(A) he flies away,(B) no more to be found,
    banished(C) like a vision of the night.(D)
The eye that saw him will not see him again;
    his place will look on him no more.(E)

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10 But a man dies and is laid low;(A)
    he breathes his last and is no more.(B)

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21 Why do you not pardon my offenses
    and forgive my sins?(A)
For I will soon lie down in the dust;(B)
    you will search for me, but I will be no more.”(C)

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34 Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”(A) 35 But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. 36 They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs(B) will devour Jezebel’s flesh.[a](C) 37 Jezebel’s body will be like dung(D) on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 9:36 See 1 Kings 21:23.

25 Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the Lord spoke this prophecy(A) against him:

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38 About ten days later, the Lord struck(A) Nabal and he died.

39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise be to the Lord, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal’s wrongdoing down on his own head.”

Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife.

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