Quotes About Wickedness

Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.

Then He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations they are committing here.”

And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked counsel in this city.

Because you have disheartened the righteous with your lies, even though I have caused them no grief, and because you have encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way?

Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWhen any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry,

For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.

Woe! Woe to you, declares the Lord GOD. And in addition to all your other wickedness,

before your wickedness was uncovered? Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom and all those around her, and by the daughters of the Philistines—all those around you who despise you.

But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldnít I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

Then you will know, O house of Israel, that I am the LORD, when I have dealt with you for the sake of My name and not according to your wicked ways and corrupt acts, declares the Lord GOD.”

and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ëI am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.

And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.í

while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.

One man commits an abomination with his neighborís wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own fatherís daughter.

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.

I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

If I say to the wicked, ëO wicked man, you will surely die,í but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.