Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.
They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night. The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
But if the Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”
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