Psalms 34:16

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But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 44:11 : 11 “Because of this, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the reputation of the wicked will rot.
  • Lev 17:10 : 10 Prohibition against Eating Blood“‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people,
  • Amos 9:4 : 4 Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”
  • Job 18:17 : 17 His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.
  • Ps 10:16 : 16 The LORD rules forever! The nations are driven out of his land.
  • Lev 26:17 : 17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 Contradictions to the Law of Retribution Not only that, but I have seen the wicked approaching and entering the temple, and as they left the holy temple, they boasted in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma.
  • Jer 17:13 : 13 You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the netherworld. For they have rejected you, the LORD, the fountain of life.
  • Ezek 14:7-8 : 7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the resident foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the LORD am determined to answer him personally. 8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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  • 1 Pet 3:12
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    12For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord’s face is against those who do evil.

  • Ps 34:14-15
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    14Turn away from evil and do what is right! Strive for peace and promote it!

    15The LORD pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help.

  • Ps 109:15
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    15May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

  • Jer 44:11
    77%

    11“Because of this, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here.

  • Ps 37:9
    74%

    9Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.

  • Ps 34:21
    74%

    21Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

  • Job 34:26
    74%

    26He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

  • Ps 34:17
    73%

    17The godly cry out and the LORD hears; he saves them from all their troubles.

  • Ps 37:38
    73%

    38Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

  • Ps 11:7
    73%

    7Certainly the LORD is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor.

  • Prov 15:3
    73%

    3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.

  • Ps 83:16
    73%

    16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.

  • Lam 3:35-36
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    73%

    35to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,

    36to defraud a person in a lawsuit– the Lord does not approve of such things!

  • Lam 3:66
    73%

    66Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the LORD’s heaven.

  • Ps 125:4
    73%

    4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, to the morally upright!

  • Ps 109:20
    72%

    20May the LORD repay my accusers in this way, those who say evil things about me!

  • Prov 2:22
    72%

    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Ps 129:4
    72%

    4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”

  • Ps 37:32
    72%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Prov 11:20
    72%

    20The LORD abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.

  • Ps 97:10
    72%

    10You who love the LORD, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power of the wicked.

  • Ps 10:15
    72%

    15Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

  • Prov 24:18
    72%

    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • Prov 15:29
    72%

    29The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

  • Prov 16:6
    72%

    6Through loyal love and truth iniquity is appeased; through fearing the LORD one avoids evil.

  • Isa 31:2
    72%

    2Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

  • Jer 16:17
    72%

    17For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

  • Ps 37:22
    72%

    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Mic 3:4
    72%

    4Someday these sinful leaders will cry to the LORD for help, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, because they have done such wicked deeds.”

  • Jer 18:23
    72%

    23But you, LORD, know all their plots to kill me. Do not pardon their crimes! Do not ignore their sins as though you had erased them! Let them be brought down in defeat before you! Deal with them while you are still angry!

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    72%

    11A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

  • Ps 37:27-28
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    72%

    27Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.

    28For the LORD promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

  • Ps 80:16
    72%

    16It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

  • Ps 69:28
    72%

    28May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

  • Prov 10:29
    72%

    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

  • Ps 37:12
    71%

    12Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.

  • Ps 54:5
    71%

    5May those who wait to ambush me be repaid for their evil! As a demonstration of your faithfulness, destroy them!

  • Ps 94:23
    71%

    23He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.

  • Jer 18:20
    71%

    20Should good be paid back with evil? Yet they are virtually digging a pit to kill me. Just remember how I stood before you pleading on their behalf to keep you from venting your anger on them.

  • Ps 5:4
    71%

    4Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.

  • Ps 109:13
    71%

    13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

  • Job 20:27
    71%

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • Ezek 14:8
    71%

    8I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Prov 21:29
    71%

    29A wicked person has put on a bold face, but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

  • Prov 8:13
    71%

    13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

  • Ps 33:18
    71%

    18Look, the LORD takes notice of his loyal followers, those who wait for him to demonstrate his faithfulness

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.