55 Bible Verses about Wicked Described As

But [as for] you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with [the] slain, those pierced [by the] sword, those who go down to [the] stones of [the] pit, like a corpse that is trodden down.

You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I [am] going to act," says Yahweh of hosts.

which when it was filled they pulled to shore and sat down [and] collected the good [fish] into containers, but the bad they threw out.

"For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit,

But man cannot continue in [his] pomp. He is like the beasts [that] perish.

But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,

Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.

And I will bring distress to all humankind, and they shall walk about like the blind, for they sinned against Yahweh; their blood shall be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.

Let them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

All of them [are] stubborn rebels, going about [talking] slander. [They are] bronze and iron, they [are] all behaving corruptly.

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became!

Instead of the thorn bush, [the] juniper shall go up; instead of the brier, [the] myrtle shall go up, and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off."

And you, son of man, you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because briers and thorns [are] with you, and you [are] sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their {looks}, for they [are] a rebellious house.

Many bulls have encircled me; mighty [bulls] of Bashan have surrounded me.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

Not so the wicked. Instead, [they are] like the chaff that [the] wind scatters.

His winnowing shovel [is] in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear

Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.

"Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around [and] tear you to pieces.

The [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, [after] washing herself, [returns] to wallowing in the mud."

You remove all the wicked of [the] earth [like] dross, therefore I love your testimonies.

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them [are as] bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, [even] [as] silver dross, silver [dross] they became! Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because all of you have become [as] silver dross, therefore look! I [am] gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem,

Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like [the] dew of early morning going [away], like chaff swirling from [the] threshing floor, or like smoke from a window.

For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her.

You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.

All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading [the] dough until it is leavened.

They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. {People had no compassion toward each other}.

And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.

When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.

Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come.

I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.

I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man [who] regrets his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?' All of them [are] turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle.

[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.

{He is like} a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.

As smoke is driven off, you will drive [them] off. As wax melts before fire, [the] wicked will perish before God.

Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; [the] moth will eat them.

For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for {generation after generation}."

With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but [the] righteous have a foundation forever.

[Like] {impure silver} which overlays an earthen vessel, [so are] smooth lips and an evil heart.

{They are called} rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them."

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell?

And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness, and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell [in the] parched places in the desert, [in] a land of salt flats, where no one lives.

And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have [any] depth of soil.

"For look! The day [is] about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every {evildoer} will be stubble. The coming day will consume them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch.

But the wicked [are] like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud.

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.