Psalms 34:21
Evil will slay the wicked, and the haters of the righteous will be condemned.
BSB
ASV
Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
KJV
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Evil shall slay the wicked. Their adversaries shall be killing; they are not medicine, but poison. Ungodly men only need rope enough and they will hang themselves; their own iniquities shall be their punishment. Hell itself is but evil fully developed, torturing those in whom it dwells. Oh! happy they who have fled to Jesus to find refuge from their former sins, such, and such only will escape. And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. They hated the best of company, and they shall have none; they shall be forsaken, despoiled, wretched, despairing.
Those that are wicked themselves often hate the righteous, name and thing, have an implacable enmity to them and their righteousness; but they shall be desolate, shall be condemned as guilty, and laid waste for ever, shall be for ever forsaken and abandoned of God and all good angels and men; and those that are so are desolate indeed.
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Proverbs 24:16For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
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2 Thessalonians 1:9They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,
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Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
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Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
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Psalms 94:23He will bring upon them their own iniquity and destroy them for their wickedness. The LORD our God will destroy them.
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His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.