23 Bible Verses about The Insecurity Of The Wicked

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk.

Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend,

'And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand;

and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.

They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?

Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.

Those swearing by the guilt of Samaria, And have said, Live doth thy god, O Dan, And, Live doth the way of Beer-Sheba, And they have fallen -- and rise not again!'

Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both -- who knoweth!

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

And come in on thee hath evil, Thou knowest not its rising, And fall on thee doth mischief, Thou art not able to pacify it, And come on thee suddenly doth desolation, Thou knowest not.

Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape;