Quotes About Punishment

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.

For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.

And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.

So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.

Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.

Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”

I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.