Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
Psalms 37:36
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Psalms 92:7
though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
Job 15:21
A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 20:6
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
Job 20:7
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
1 Samuel 25:36
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
1 Samuel 25:37
In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
1 Samuel 25:38
About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.
Psalms 37:38
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Proverbs 6:15
Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
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Psalms 73:16
When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
Job 20:8
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Job 20:9
The eye which saw him will see him no more, neither will his place see him any more.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Psalms 37:10
For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
Job 15:22
He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
Job 27:19
He lies down rich, but he will not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Luke 21:34
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
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Isaiah 29:7
The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Isaiah 17:12
Ah, the uproar of many peoples who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
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Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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Psalms 90:5
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
James 4:14
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
1 John 2:17
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
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Psalms 7:6
Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
Psalms 78:65
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
Psalms 35:23
Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
Psalms 44:23
Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
Isaiah 51:9
Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?
Psalms 80:2
Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!
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Psalms 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalms 73:21
For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
Psalms 73:22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Psalms 73:23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
Psalms 73:24
You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Psalms 73:25
Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 73:27
For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Psalms 73:28
But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
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Isaiah 29:8
It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
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Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
Luke 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,
Luke 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
Luke 16:24
He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
Luke 16:25
“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted and you are in anguish.
Psalms 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Psalms 49:7
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
Psalms 49:8
For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,
Psalms 49:9
that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
Psalms 49:10
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
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Psalms 73:5
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73:9
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
Job 21:11
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
Job 21:12
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
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Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 49:12
But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Job 36:18
Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.
Psalms 49:17
for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
Psalms 52:7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
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Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
Job 18:9
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
Job 18:10
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
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