Proverbs 21:12

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

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.

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

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

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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.

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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.”

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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

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

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

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

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

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

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

though these three men were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

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.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

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

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.