100 Bible Verses About Divine Judgment
Bible verses about Divine Judgment
Exploring divine judgment through scripture offers a profound opportunity for spiritual growth. While the concept may seem daunting, understanding God's justice, righteousness, and holiness is vital for navigating our earthly journey. By studying these verses, we gain insight into God's character and expectations, inspiring us to live with intention and accountability. Embracing this knowledge fosters self-reflection, repentance, and a deeper appreciation for God's grace and mercy. Ultimately, contemplating divine judgment encourages us to align our hearts and actions with God's will, striving for a life that reflects His love and brings us closer to Him.
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Psalms 36:1 (KJV)
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
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And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest;
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment.
For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
And they returned, and came to En–mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon–tamar.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
But the bullock, and his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
The verses exploring divine judgment reveal a God deeply concerned with justice, righteousness, and the ultimate consequences of human actions. While some portray judgment as a future event involving reward and punishment, others emphasize God's present-day discernment and active intervention in individual lives and societies. These scriptures serve as a potent reminder of accountability, urging us to consider the moral implications of our choices and the impact they have on ourselves and others. Reflection on these verses should inspire a commitment to living in accordance with God's will, seeking forgiveness when we fall short, and actively pursuing justice and compassion in the world. Ultimately, the concept of divine judgment calls us to introspection, encourages moral growth, and invites us to embrace a life centered on faith, love, and obedience.