100 Bible Verses About God's Judgment
Bible verses about God's Judgment
Exploring God's judgment through scripture is not meant to instill fear, but to awaken a profound understanding of His holiness and justice. These verses reveal the seriousness with which God views sin and the consequences of our choices. By grappling with these passages, we gain wisdom to live righteously, aligning our hearts with His will. Understanding God's judgment inspires us to seek repentance, embrace His grace, and extend compassion to others. It serves as a constant reminder of the ultimate accountability we all share, urging us towards a life of purpose, love, and devotion to Him.
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Psalms 97:5 (KJV)
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
God's Judgment: Bible Verses & Understanding
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee.
God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth–maim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.
As the Lord thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,
And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers.
The verses explored reveal a multifaceted understanding of God's judgment: a just and inevitable reckoning, a refining fire, and a call to repentance and righteous living. While the concept can evoke fear, it's ultimately rooted in God's love and desire for justice and restoration. These scriptures highlight the seriousness of sin and the importance of aligning our lives with God's will. Reflecting on these verses should not paralyze us with dread, but rather motivate us towards introspection and a commitment to living a life that honors God. Understanding God's judgment encourages us to seek forgiveness, extend grace to others, and actively participate in building a world that reflects His righteousness, knowing that we are all accountable for our actions.