Suffering


13. The suffering of the worldly wicked:
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--Or even of backslidden disobedient Christians

DEU 28:20. The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

DEU 28:15. But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

DEU 28:16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

DEU 28:17. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

DEU 28:18. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

DEU 28:19. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

DEU 28:20. The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

DEU 28:21. The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

DEU 28:22. The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

DEU 28:23. And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

DEU 28:24. The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

DEU 28:25. The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

DEU 28:26. And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

DEU 28:27. The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

DEU 28:28. The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

DEU 28:29. And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

DEU 28:30. Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

DEU 28:31. Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

DEU 28:32. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.

DEU 28:33. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

DEU 28:34. So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

DEU 28:35. The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

DEU 28:36. The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

DEU 28:37. And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

DEU 28:38. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

DEU 28:39. Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

DEU 28:40. Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

DEU 28:41. Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

DEU 28:42. All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

DEU 28:43. The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

DEU 28:44. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

DEU 28:45. Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

DEU 28:46. And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

DEU 28:47. Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

DEU 28:48. Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

DEU 28:49. The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

DEU 28:50. A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

DEU 28:51. And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

DEU 28:52. And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

DEU 28:53. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

DEU 28:54. So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

DEU 28:55. So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

DEU 28:56. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

DEU 28:57. And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

DEU 28:58. If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

DEU 28:59. Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

DEU 28:60. Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

DEU 28:61. Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

DEU 28:62. And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

DEU 28:63. And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

DEU 28:64. And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

DEU 28:65. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

DEU 28:66. And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

DEU 28:67. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

JOB 15:20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

PSA 32:10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

ISA 42:24. Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

ISA 42:25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

ISA 57:20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

ISA 57:21. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

HEB 2:15. And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

1JOH 4:18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

JOB 20:1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

JOB 20:2. Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

JOB 20:3. I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

JOB 20:4. Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

JOB 20:5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

JOB 20:6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

JOB 20:7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

JOB 20:8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

JOB 20:9. The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

JOB 20:10. His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

JOB 20:11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

JOB 20:12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

JOB 20:13. Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

JOB 20:14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

JOB 20:15. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

JOB 20:16. He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

JOB 20:17. He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

JOB 20:18. That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

JOB 20:19. Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

JOB 20:20. Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

JOB 20:21. There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

JOB 20:22. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

JOB 20:23. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

JOB 20:24. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

JOB 20:25. It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

JOB 20:26. All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

JOB 20:27. The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

JOB 20:28. The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

JOB 20:29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

ECC 2:22. For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

ECC 2:23. For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

LAM 3:42. We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

LAM 3:43. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

LAM 3:44. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

LAM 3:45. Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

LAM 3:46. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

LAM 3:47. Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.