23 Bible Verses about The Insecurity Of The Wicked

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:

Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.

And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.

For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?

A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.