He sends disaster and ruin to those who do wrong.

The righteous are guided and protected by the LORD, but the evil are on the way to their doom.

You destroy all liars and despise violent, deceitful people.

but sinners are completely destroyed, and their descendants are wiped out.

Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

We know that your enemies will die, and all the wicked will be defeated.

May sinners be destroyed from the earth; may the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, my soul! Praise the LORD!

But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

But if that servant says to himself that his master is taking a long time to come back and if he begins to beat the other servants, both the men and the women, and eats and drinks and gets drunk,

then the master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know. The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the disobedient.

When people say, "Everything is quiet and safe," then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from his glorious might,

But the heavens and the earth that now exist are being preserved by the same command of God, in order to be destroyed by fire. They are being kept for the day when godless people will be judged and destroyed.

But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars---the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

You are guilty. You are like a high wall with a crack running down it; suddenly you will collapse.

All of you that plot to destroy others will be destroyed by your own plots. The LORD himself will make this happen; you will suffer a miserable fate.

"But it will be different for you that forsake me, who ignore Zion, my sacred hill, and worship Gad and Meni, the gods of luck and fate.

But if you continue to sin, you and your king will be destroyed."

But if you or your descendants stop following me, disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and worship other gods,

This Temple will become a pile of ruins, and everyone who passes by will be shocked and amazed. 'Why did the LORD do this to this land and this Temple?' they will ask.

And to Solomon he said, "My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

"I will punish the people of Jerusalem and of all Judah. I will destroy the last trace of the worship of Baal there, and no one will even remember the pagan priests who serve him.

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."