¹⁹Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

³²And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

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:

³⁵I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

⁶For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

⁶I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

¹²Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

²As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

⁹Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

⁸For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

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

²³Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

³⁰Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

³³Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

⁵Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:

¹For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

³⁸The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

²⁰But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

¹⁶But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

¹³O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

²⁷Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

¹²For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

⁵The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

⁶Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

¹¹God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

¹³As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

⁵But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.