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.

Leviticus 26:24KJV

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.

Job 42:8KJV

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Job 35:15KJV

And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

Deuteronomy 30:7KJV

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord: for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

1 Samuel 2:17KJV

And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deuteronomy 27:13KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 10:10KJV

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

Psalms 62:11KJV

And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.

Deuteronomy 1:45KJV

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Proverbs 24:9KJV

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Job 30:22KJV

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.

2 Chronicles 33:19KJV

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Psalms 124:5KJV

Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

Job 37:22KJV

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

Joshua 9:3KJV

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Psalms 73:10KJV

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

Ecclesiastes 8:4KJV

Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

Psalms 2:9KJV

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.

Psalms 50:21KJV

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.

Judges 4:15KJV

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.

Joshua 9:24KJV

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.

Isaiah 58:4KJV

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

Psalms 60:10KJV

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;

Judges 2:20KJV

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

Psalms 18:9KJV

Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Psalms 109:20KJV

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Proverbs 15:3KJV

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Psalms 95:9KJV

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.

Exodus 9:8KJV

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

Psalms 106:33KJV

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

Psalms 90:11KJV

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.

1 Samuel 12:19KJV

He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

Job 12:19KJV

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.

Exodus 8:11KJV

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.

Isaiah 50:2KJV

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?

Ruth 1:21KJV

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Job 35:12KJV

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.

2 Chronicles 33:11KJV

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.

1 Samuel 5:11KJV

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.

2 Samuel 18:19KJV

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalms 58:11KJV

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Job 21:7KJV

The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

2 Samuel 22:14KJV

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Psalms 74:3KJV

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalms 11:5KJV

Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;

Deuteronomy 25:17KJV

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?

Job 9:24KJV

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Isaiah 2:22KJV

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.

Isaiah 64:5KJV

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.

Isaiah 38:1KJV

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.

Joshua 13:6KJV

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.

2 Samuel 3:39KJV

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.

Numbers 21:8KJV

And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.

1 Samuel 18:12KJV

To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalms 149:9KJV

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.

1 Kings 18:10KJV

For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

Psalms 92:9KJV

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.

Isaiah 41:12KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 1:17KJV

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.

2 Samuel 11:27KJV

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Job 34:5KJV

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 40:17KJV

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 44:19KJV

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.

Ezra 5:12KJV

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Psalms 97:5KJV

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Psalms 95:8KJV

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.

Deuteronomy 4:23KJV

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:

Psalms 95:10KJV

What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

Job 39:18KJV

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 22:3KJV

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

Proverbs 25:22KJV

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.

Psalms 40:14KJV

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Job 21:22KJV

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.

Jeremiah 6:9KJV

But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:23KJV

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 1:32KJV

And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

Joshua 11:9KJV

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.

Psalms 37:28KJV

According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

Isaiah 59:18KJV

Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

Psalms 76:7KJV

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

Proverbs 26:10KJV

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Psalms 1:4KJV

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

Exodus 10:16KJV

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Proverbs 23:32KJV

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Proverbs 6:35KJV

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.

Isaiah 42:17KJV

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Job 10:17KJV

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.

Psalms 54:5KJV

Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

Job 34:17KJV

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.

Jeremiah 9:24KJV

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Job 21:27KJV

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Isaiah 65:6KJV

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.

Job 16:8KJV

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

Psalms 7:9KJV

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

Psalms 89:46KJV

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isaiah 40:23KJV

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

Exodus 32:32KJV

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.

Job 6:4KJV

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.

Isaiah 40:10KJV

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.

1 Samuel 12:7KJV

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.