Proverbs 2:22

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

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

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.

You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth.

For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth;

Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

“You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”