they not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness will they deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. Therefore he that made them. will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour.

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They that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, the same. The Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness.

2 Whosoever hath sinned against me, saith the Lord, him will I blot out of my book.

3 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger. God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. His eyes shall see his destruction; and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst ?

4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds ;_yet, he shall perish for ever, like his own dung. They which have seen him shall say, Where is he? Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, it is the gall of asps within him. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath; he shall not save of that which

2 Exod. xxxii. 33.

3 Job

1 Job iv. 8. Psal. xciv. 23. xxi. 17. 19, 20, 21. 4 Job xx. 4, 5, 6, 7. 12. 14. 22. 28. 20. 29.

he desired. This is the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes: cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken him.

2 Thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: neither shall thy substance continue; neither shalt thou prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

3 The desire of the wicked shall perish. They look for peace, but no good cometh; and for a time of health, but behold trouble. For their sins have withholden good things from them: and the things that the Lord hath given them shall pass away from them, and he will curse their blessings.

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They shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. The prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

5 The Lord will make them contemptible and base before all the people, according as they have not kept his ways; and he will change their glory into

shame.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself. The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. For God shall cast upon him, and not spare; men shall clap

1 Deut. xxviii. 15. 19. 2. 20.

2 Deut. xxviii. 29.

3 Psal cxii. 10. Jer. viii. 15. Jer. v. 25. Jer. viii. 13.

Job xv. 29.
Mal. ii. 2.

4 Prov. i. 31, 32. 5 Mal. ii. 9. v. 22. John xviii. 7. Job xxvii. 22,

Hosea iv. 7.

23.

6 Prov.

their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. And a man shall not be established by

wickedness.

2 Governors are sent by God for the punishment of evil-doers. And they bear not the sword in vain; for they are the ministers of God, to execute wrath upon them that do evil.

3 The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers, for whoremongers, for liars, for perjured persons; and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.

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The way of transgressors is hard.

5 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days. Trouble and anguish shall prevail against him. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side: a dreadful sound is in his ears; and he is in great fear where no fear is.

6 He shall find no ease nor rest. For the Lord shall give him a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. And his life shall hang in doubt before him; and he shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of his life. In the morning he shall say, Would God it were even; and at even he shall say, Would God it were morning; for fear of his heart wherewith he shall fear. His life shall be grievous unto him.

1 There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

2 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear?

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They that are in the flesh cannot please God. If ye forsake the Lord, he will cast you off for ever: he will love you no more. God is angry with the wicked every day the foolish shall not stand in his sight. He hateth all workers of iniquity.

The Lord is far from the wicked. Their iniquities have separated between them and their God; and their sins have hid his face from them, that he will not hear. And woe unto them, saith the Lord, when I depart from them.

5 As the wicked do not like to retain God in their knowledge, God giveth them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. For this cause also God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that they all may be damned that believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness.

The wicked are reserved to the day of destruction; they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. They shall be turned into hell, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched; but the wrath of God abideth on them.

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Behold the day cometh, when the Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them

1 Isa. xlviii. 22. Isa. lvii. 20.

2 Prov. xviii. 14.

viii. 8. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Hosea ix. 15. Psal. vii. 11.

4 Prov. xv. 29.

2 Thess. ii. 11, 12. John iii. 36.

Isa. lix. 2. Hosea ix. 12.

6 Job xxi. 30. Psal. ix. 17. 7 Mal. iv. 1. Matt. xiii. 41, 42.

3 Rom.

Psal. v. 5.

which do iuiqnity: and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

1 In that day shall the Lord Jesus be revealed from heaven, with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his

power.

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Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among men of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

3 The day of the Lord cometh with wrath and fierce anger; and he will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. He will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and he will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible: neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. The day of the wicked shall come, when their iniquity shall have no end: and the Lord shall take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds. Horror also shall cover them, and shame shall be upon all faces; and pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them.

* And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

1 2 Thess. i. 10. 7, 8, 9. Ezek. vii. 13. Ezek. xxi. 29.

2 Jude 14, 15.
Ezek. xxiv. 25.

3 Isa. xiii. 9. 11. Ezek. vii. 18. Isa.