Verse 20

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
  • Job 17:5 : 5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
  • Job 31:16 : 16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
  • Ps 69:3 : 3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
  • Prov 10:24 : 24 The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.
  • Lam 4:17 : 17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
  • Amos 2:14 : 14 And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:
  • Amos 5:19-20 : 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
  • Amos 9:1-3 : 1 I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe. 2 Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: 3 Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
  • Luke 16:23-26 : 23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast. 24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain. 26 And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
  • Heb 2:3 : 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
  • Job 27:22 : 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
  • Job 8:13-14 : 13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: 14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.