23 Bible Verses about The Insecurity Of The Wicked

Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction.

You will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea; like one who lies on top of a mast.

For that reason your sin will be like a high wall with a bulging crack, ready to fall. All of a sudden it will fall.

Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.

That is why their own way will become like a slippery path in the dark. They will be chased away, and they will fall down in the dark. I will bring disaster on them. It is time for them to be punished, proclaims Jehovah.

It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.'

So tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out.

Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.

The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.

Righteousness of the undefiled [man of integrity] directs his way! Wickedness causes the evil to fall.

The mouth of the adulterous is a deep pit. The one who is cursed by Jehovah will fall into it.

He that digs a pit will fall into it. A serpent will bite whoever breaks through a hedge.

Are they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They are not even ashamed! Not at all! They do not even know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I punish them, they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

Say to them: 'This is what Jehovah says: When someone falls, he gets back up. When someone turns away from me, he returns.'

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery. The men go out with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes. The people that do not understand will fall (be overthrown).

They who swear by the sin of Samaria. They will say: 'As your god lives, O Dan, the way Beersheba lives.' They will fall and never rise up again.

His disaster will come suddenly. Suddenly he is broken beyond repair.

Their calamity will rise suddenly! Who knows the ruin from both of them?

He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly, ruin you never dreamed of!

Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.

When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.