whose people were wicked and sinned against the LORD.

Then the LORD said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great.

You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.

Then he sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but he changed his mind and said to the angel, "Stop! That's enough!" The angel was standing by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.

David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people---all of whom were wearing sackcloth---bowed low, with their faces touching the ground.

He examines the good and the wicked alike; the lawless he hates with all his heart.

He sends down flaming coals and burning sulfur on the wicked; he punishes them with scorching winds.

But evil people are doomed; what they have done to others will now be done to them.

Do you think I have attacked your country and destroyed it without the LORD's help? The LORD himself told me to attack it and destroy it."

An angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!

And I heard God say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill. Spare no one; have mercy on no one.

Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But don't touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple." So they began with the leaders who were standing there at the Temple.

the Son of Man will send out his angels to gather up out of his Kingdom all those who cause people to sin and all others who do evil things,

and they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

It will be like this at the end of the age: the angels will go out and gather up the evil people from among the good

and will throw them into the fiery furnace, where they will cry and gnash their teeth.

At once the angel of the Lord struck Herod down, because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

Why not say, then, "Let us do evil so that good may come"? Some people, indeed, have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They will be condemned, as they should be.

Well then, are we Jews in any better condition than the Gentiles? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, and the nearby towns, whose people acted as those angels did and indulged in sexual immorality and perversion: they suffer the punishment of eternal fire as a plain warning to all.

Then I heard a loud voice speaking from the temple to the seven angels: "Go and pour out the seven bowls of God's anger on the earth!"

Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea. The water became like the blood of a dead person, and every living creature in the sea died.

I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "The judgments you have made are just, O Holy One, you who are and who were!

Then I heard a voice from the altar saying, "Lord God Almighty! True and just indeed are your judgments!"

They were burned by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues. But they would not turn from their sins and praise his greatness.

and they cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores. But they did not turn from their evil ways.