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Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you won’t find any peace. There won’t be any place where you can make your home and rest your feet. The Lord will give you minds filled with worry. He’ll give you eyes worn out from looking for help. You won’t have any hope in your hearts.
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Job 17:5
Suppose someone tells lies about their friends to get a reward. Then their own children will suffer for it.
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Job 31:16
“ I haven’t said no to what poor people have wanted. I haven’t let widows lose their hope.
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Proverbs 20:20
If anyone asks for bad things to happen to their father or mother, that person’s lamp will be blown out in total darkness.
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Job 8:13-14
The same thing happens to everyone who forgets God. The hope of ungodly people dies out.What they trust in is very weak. What they depend on is like a spider’s web.
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Amos 5:19-20
It will be like a man running away from a lion only to meet a bear. He enters his house and rests his hand on a wall only to be bitten by a snake.The day of the Lord will be dark, not light. It will be very black. There won’t be a ray of sunlight anywhere.
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Lamentations 4:17
And that’s not all. Our eyes grew tired. We looked for help that never came. We watched from our towers. We kept looking for a nation that couldn’t save us.
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Job 27:22
It blows against them without mercy. They try to escape from its power.
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Hebrews 2:3
Then how will we escape if we don’t pay attention to God’s great salvation? The Lord first announced this salvation. Those who heard him gave us the message about it.
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Luke 16:23-26
In the place of the dead, the rich man was suffering terribly. He looked up and saw Abraham far away. Lazarus was by his side.So the rich man called out,‘ Father Abraham! Have pity on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water. Then he can cool my tongue with it. I am in terrible pain in this fire.’“ But Abraham replied,‘ Son, remember what happened in your lifetime. You received your good things. Lazarus received bad things. Now he is comforted here, and you are in terrible pain.Besides, a wide space has been placed between us and you. So those who want to go from here to you can’t go. And no one can cross over from there to us.’
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Job 27:8
What hope do ungodly people have when their lives are cut short? What hope do they have when God takes away their lives?
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Amos 2:14
Your fastest runners will not escape. The strongest people will not get away. Even soldiers will not be able to save their own lives.
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Amos 9:1-3
I saw the Lord standing next to the altar in the temple. He said to me,“ Strike the tops of the temple pillars. Then the heavy stones at the base of the entrance will shake. Bring everything down on the heads of everyone there. I will kill with my swords those who are left alive. None of the Israelites will escape. None will get away.They might dig down deep. But my powerful hand will take them out of there. They might climb up to the heavens. But I will bring them down from there.They might hide on top of Mount Carmel. But I will hunt them down and grab them. They might hide from me at the bottom of the ocean. But even there I will command the serpent to bite them.
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Job 34:22
There is no deep shadow or total darkness where those who do what is evil can hide.
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Proverbs 10:24
What sinners are afraid of will catch up with them. But those who do right will get what they want.
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Psalms 69:3
I’m worn out from calling for help. My throat is very dry. My eyes grow tired looking for my God.
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Leviticus 26:16
Then here is what I will do to you. All at once I will bring terror on you. I will send sicknesses that will make you weak. I will send fever that will destroy your sight. It will slowly take your strength away. When you plant seeds, it will not do you any good. Instead, your enemies will eat what you have planted.
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Job 18:14
They are torn away from the safety of their tents. They are marched off to the one who rules over death.
