86 Bible Verses About God's Judgment

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.