Psalm 58:9
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9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!(A)
Proverbs 10:25
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25 When the tempest passes, the wicked are no more,
but the righteous are established forever.(A)
Psalm 118:12
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12 They surrounded me like bees;
they blazed[a] like a fire of thorns;
in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Footnotes
- 118.12 Gk: Heb were extinguished
Ecclesiastes 7:6
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6 For like the crackling of thorns under a pot,
so is the laughter of fools;
this also is vanity.
Jeremiah 23:19
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19 Look, the storm of the Lord!
Wrath has gone forth,
a whirling tempest;
it will burst upon the head of the wicked.(A)
Isaiah 40:24
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24 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.(A)
Isaiah 17:13
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13 [[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]][a]
he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away,
chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind
and like whirling dust before the storm.(A)
Footnotes
- 17.13 Heb mss Syr lack When . . . waters
Proverbs 14:32
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32 The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing,
but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.[a](A)
Footnotes
- 14.32 Gk Syr: Heb in their death
Proverbs 1:27
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27 when panic strikes you like a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
Psalm 73:18-20
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Psalm 55:23
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23 But you, O God, will cast them down
into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.(A)
Psalm 10:5
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5 Their ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, out of their sight;
as for their foes, they scoff at them.
Psalm 10:2
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2 In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor—
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.(A)
Job 27:21
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21 The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone;
it sweeps them out of their place.(A)
Job 20:5-29
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5 that the exulting of the wicked is short
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
6 Even though they mount up high as the heavens
and their head reaches to the clouds,(B)
7 they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(C)
9 The eye that saw them will see them no more,
nor will their place behold them any longer.(D)
10 Their children will seek the favor of the poor,
and their hands will give back their wealth.(E)
11 Their bodies, once full of youth,
will lie down in the dust with them.(F)
12 “Though wickedness is sweet in their mouth,
though they hide it under their tongues,(G)
13 though they are loath to let it go
and hold it in their mouths,
14 yet their food is turned in their stomachs;
it is the venom of asps within them.
15 They swallow down riches and vomit them up again;
God casts them out of their bellies.
16 They will suck the poison of asps;
the tongue of a viper will kill them.(H)
17 They will not look on the rivers,
the streams flowing with honey and curds.(I)
18 They will give back the fruit of their toil
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
they will get no enjoyment.(J)
19 For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;
they have seized a house that they did not build.(K)
20 “For they knew no quiet in their bellies;
in their greed they let nothing escape.(L)
21 There was nothing left after they had eaten;
therefore their prosperity will not endure.(M)
22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
all the force of misery will come upon them.
23 To fill their belly to the full,
God[a] will send his fierce anger into them
and rain it upon them as their food.(N)
24 They will flee from an iron weapon;
a bronze arrow will strike them through.(O)
25 It is drawn forth and comes out of their body,
and the glittering point comes out of their gall;
terrors come upon them.(P)
26 Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;
a fire fanned by no one will devour them;
what is left in their tent will be consumed.(Q)
27 The heavens will reveal their iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against them.(R)
28 The possessions of their house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God’s[b] wrath.(S)
29 This is the portion of the wicked from God,
the heritage decreed for them by God.”(T)
Job 18:18
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18 They are thrust from light into darkness
and driven out of the world.
Numbers 16:30
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30 But if the Lord creates something new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”(A)
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