55 Bible Verses about Wicked Described As

However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse.

When I act you will tread down the wicked. They will be like dust under your feet, Jehovah of Hosts said.

They drew it up on the beach when it was full. They gathered the good into containers and threw away the bad.

A good tree does not produce corrupt fruit and a corrupt tree does not produce good fruit.

But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die.

But these are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction.

The inhabitants of these cities are weak, discouraged, and ashamed. They will be like plants in the field, like fresh green grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

I will bring distress on humans and they will walk like they are blind! They have sinned against Jehovah! Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure.

Let them be. They are blind guides. If a blind man guides another blind man, they will fall in a hole together.

All of them are stubborn rebels. They go about telling false stories. They are copper and iron. They are all corrupt, all of them!

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver.

Instead of the thornbush the pine tree will grow. Instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for Jehovah's fame. It will be for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.

Son of man, do not be afraid of them or the things they say. Do not be afraid, even though thorns and thistles are around you and you live among scorpions. Do not let the things they say frighten you. Do not be terrified in their presence even though they are rebellious people.

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls from Bashan have encircled me.

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

This is not so for the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.

As a dog returns to his vomit so a fool returns to his folly.

Do not give holy things to the dogs (impure persons) (false prophets) (Matthew 7:15). Do not throw your pearls before swine (the most unclean). They will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

It happened to them according to the true proverb: The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross; Therefore I love your law.

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Therefore, the Lord Jehovah says: 'I am going to gather you into Jerusalem. This is because all of you have become dross (impure) (worthless).

That is why they will be like fog in the morning and like morning dew that disappears quickly. They will be like straw blown away from threshing floors. They will be like smoke rising from chimneys.

You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water.

When you appear, you will make them burn like a blazing furnace. Jehovah will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them.

They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker does not have to fan its flames when he makes bread.

They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of Jehovah I destroyed them.

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 land is blackened by the fury of Jehovah of Hosts. The people are fuel for the fire, and no one spares anyone else.

All nations will be gathered before him. He will then separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

They will quickly dry up like grass and whither away like green plants.

Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.

Since you rage against me and you boast in my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. I will make you go back the way you came.

I have seen a wicked, violent man spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

I paid attention and listened, but they were not honest. They do not turn away from their wickedness. They do not ask: 'What have we done?' They go their own ways like horses charging into battle.'

Those who make idols end up like them. So does everyone who trusts them.

Each one of them is like a lion eager to tear its prey apart and like a young lion crouching in hiding places.

As smoke is driven away, drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

The Lord Jehovah helps me. Who will find me guilty? They will all wear out like a garment and moths will eat them.

The moth will eat them up like a garment. The worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever! My salvation will last through all generations.

The whirlwind passes and the wicked is no more. The righteous has an everlasting foundation.

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a broken pottery covered with silver dross.

They call them rejected silver, for Jehovah has rejected them.

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.

Others fell on rocky places and did not have much soil.

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough.

But the wicked are like the troubled and restless sea, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

He flies away like a dream banished like a vision of the night. He cannot be found!

Of what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their playmates.

These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside. They are full of dead men's bones and uncleanness on the inside.

An empty headed man can no more become wise than a wild donkey's colt can be born a man.