Psalms 73:18

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

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

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

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

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

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

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

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.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

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

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

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

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

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.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

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

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.

Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

“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.

You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

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

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

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

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

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

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

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

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

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.