Psalms 69:24

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Psalms 69:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

22 May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.

24 Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.

25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

26 For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

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Psalms 79:6

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Leviticus 26:14

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

Leviticus 26:15

and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

Leviticus 26:16

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:17

And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

Leviticus 26:18

And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:19

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

Leviticus 26:21

If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:22

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

Leviticus 26:23

And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Leviticus 26:24

then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:27

But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

Leviticus 26:28

then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Leviticus 26:31

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Leviticus 26:32

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

Leviticus 26:36

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.

Leviticus 26:37

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

Leviticus 26:38

You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

Leviticus 26:39

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

Leviticus 26:40

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Leviticus 26:41

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:42

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:43

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.

Leviticus 26:45

But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”

Leviticus 26:46

These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 28:15

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 28:16

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28:18

The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 28:19

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:20

The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

Deuteronomy 28:21

The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24

The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:26

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Deuteronomy 28:27

The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.

Deuteronomy 28:28

The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

Deuteronomy 28:29

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

Deuteronomy 28:30

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:31

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

Deuteronomy 28:32

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.

Deuteronomy 28:34

You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

Deuteronomy 28:35

The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

Deuteronomy 28:36

The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Deuteronomy 28:39

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

Deuteronomy 28:40

You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:44

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Deuteronomy 28:45

All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.

Deuteronomy 28:46

These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.

Deuteronomy 28:47

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:49

The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

Deuteronomy 28:50

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

Deuteronomy 28:51

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.

Deuteronomy 28:52

They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 28:53

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:55

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:56

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

Deuteronomy 28:58

If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—

Deuteronomy 28:59

He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

Deuteronomy 28:60

He will afflict you again with all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.

Deuteronomy 28:61

The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Deuteronomy 28:66

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

Deuteronomy 28:68

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

Deuteronomy 29:19

because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Deuteronomy 29:21

and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

Deuteronomy 29:22

Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

Deuteronomy 29:23

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 29:24

So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’

Deuteronomy 29:25

And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:26

They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the LORD had not given to them.

Deuteronomy 29:27

Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

Deuteronomy 31:17

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

Deuteronomy 32:20

He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Hosea 5:10

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

Matthew 23:35

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Matthew 23:36

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Luke 21:22

For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

1 Thessalonians 2:16

hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

Revelation 16:1

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

Exodus 15:15

Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

Isaiah 13:8

Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

Zechariah 1:6

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”