Quotes About Punishment

And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

and tell them that this is what the king says: ëPut this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.í”

So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.

And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.í”

After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.

I also decree that if any man interferes with this directive, a beam is to be torn from his house and raised up, and he is to be impaled on it. And his own house shall be made a pile of rubble for this offense.

If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

After all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt (though You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such a remnant as this),

After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

then you should fear the sword yourselves, because wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know there is a judgment.”

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

This is the wicked manís portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

It is said that God lays up oneís punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,

Suppose someone says to God, ëI have endured my punishment; I will offend no more.

and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.