He will certainly punish you If you secretly show partiality.

Then be afraid of the sword for yourselves, For wrath brings the punishment of the sword, So that you may know there is judgment.”

Is it because of your reverence that He punishes you, That He enters into judgment against you?

For that would be a lustful crime; Moreover, it would be wrongdoing punishable by judges.

“For has anyone said to God, ‘I have endured punishment; I will not offend anymore;

Prayer of a Suffering Penitent.

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.

Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath, And do not punish me in Your burning anger.

With rebukes You punish a person for wrongdoing; You consume like a moth what is precious to him; Certainly all mankind is mere breath! Selah

Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.

For the music director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David.

Do you indeed speak righteousness, you gods? Do you judge fairly, you sons of mankind?

You, Lord God of armies, the God of Israel, Awake to punish all the nations; Do not be gracious to any who deal treacherously in wrongdoing. Selah

For I have been stricken all day long, And punished every morning.

Those who hate the Lord would pretend to obey Him, And their time of punishment would be forever.

Then I will punish their wrongdoing with the rod, And their guilt with afflictions.

To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishment on the peoples,

The wages of the righteous is life, The income of the wicked, punishment.

There is severe punishment for one who abandons the way; One who hates a rebuke will die.

When the scoffer is punished, the naive becomes wise; But when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Now what will you do in the day of punishment, And in the devastation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? And where will you leave your wealth?

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the arrogant pride of his eyes.”

So I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their wrongdoing; I will also put an end to the audacity of the proud And humiliate the arrogance of the tyrants.

So it will happen on that day, That the Lord will punish the rebellious angels of heaven on high, And the kings of the earth on earth.

They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.

For behold, the Lord is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wrongdoing; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain.

God’s Blessings for Israel

On that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

From the Lord of armies you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.