This happened so that Abimelech and the men of Shechem, who encouraged him to murder Gideon's seventy sons, would pay for their crime.

He sends disaster and ruin to those who do wrong.

God remembers those who suffer; he does not forget their cry, and he punishes those who wrong them.

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

The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished; they will wade through the blood of the wicked.

People will say, "The righteous are indeed rewarded; there is indeed a God who judges the world."

He will punish them for their wickedness and destroy them for their sins; the LORD our God will destroy them.

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

for God will judge you in the same way you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others.

The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another, "This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea."

Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.

The beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had performed miracles in his presence. (It was by those miracles that he had deceived those who had the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped the image of the beast.) The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Their armies were killed by the sword that comes out of the mouth of the one who was riding the horse; and all the birds ate all they could of their flesh.