²³But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

⁹Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

³For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

¹⁸Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

¹⁹How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

⁵⁰He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

²²His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

²³He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²⁵As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

²⁷The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

⁷When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

¹⁰When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

⁹The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

¹⁶The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

²⁰For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

¹He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

¹⁶When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

¹⁰And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

¹¹Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

¹⁴And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

¹⁴They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

³For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

⁴They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

⁸They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

¹⁰Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

²²And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

²³And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

²⁴And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.