But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.

but sinners are completely destroyed, and their descendants are wiped out.

destroy them in your anger; destroy them completely. Then everyone will know that God rules in Israel, that his rule extends over all the earth.

God rises up and scatters his enemies. Those who hate him run away in defeat.

As smoke is blown away, so he drives them off; as wax melts in front of the fire, so do the wicked perish in God's presence.

Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

Day after day I will destroy the wicked in our land; I will expel all who are evil from the city of the LORD.

So may all your enemies die like that, O LORD, but may your friends shine like the rising sun! And there was peace in the land for forty years.

But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.

After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a large crowd of people in heaven, saying, "Praise God! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God!

True and just are his judgments! He has condemned the prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her immorality. God has punished her because she killed his servants."

O LORD, my God, how great you are! You are clothed with majesty and glory;

Praise the LORD, my soul! All my being, praise his holy name!

Praise the LORD, my soul, and do not forget how kind he is.

Praise the LORD, all his creatures in all the places he rules. Praise the LORD, my soul! Praise the LORD, my soul!