Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.
“God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
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