14 Bible Verses about God Beating People

“For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the Lord to anger.

But with righteousness He will judge the poor,
And decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth;
And He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth,
And with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked.

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them?
Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, do the smiting.

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

Then I will punish their transgression with the rod
And their iniquity with stripes.

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will return to the Lord, and He will respond to them and will heal them.

I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares the Lord. “I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.”’”

Then Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’

And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands.

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the Law, and in violation of the Law order me to be struck?”

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”