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Psalms 56:7

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In spite of such sin, will they escape? In Your anger, O God, cast down the nations.

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Psalms 55:23rank 5

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Ecclesiastes 8:8rank 3

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Habakkuk 1:13rank 3

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Psalms 55:15rank 3

Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.

Jeremiah 10:25rank 3

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

Isaiah 28:15rank 3

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Psalms 55:9rank 3

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Jeremiah 7:10rank 3

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Psalms 36:12rank 3

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

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