But ¹  he will reply, ²  ‘I don’t know where you come from! ³  Go away from me, all you evildoers!’ ⁴ 

So the sovereign master was not pleased ¹  with their young men, he took no pity ²  on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless ³  and did wicked things, ⁴  every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. ⁵  Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again. ⁶ 

(3:19) ¹  “For indeed the day ²  is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It ³  will not leave even a root or branch.

It’s like the old proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, ¹  the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

You want to humiliate the oppressed, ¹  even though ²  the Lord is their ³  shelter.

Do not be angry and frustrated! ¹  Do not fret! That only leads to trouble!

A wise king separates out ¹  the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them. ² 

I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, ¹  their sin by inflicting them with bruises. ² 

For they eat bread ¹  gained from wickedness ²  and drink wine obtained from violence. ³ 

During the days of my fleeting life ¹  I have seen both ²  of these things: Sometimes ³  a righteous person dies prematurely ⁴  in spite of ⁵  his righteousness, and sometimes ⁶  a wicked person lives long ⁷  in spite of his evil deeds.

There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.

There will be no prosperity,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer ¹  for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer ²  for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. ³ 

You ¹  build Zion through bloody crimes, ²  Jerusalem ³  through unjust violence.

The evildoer must continue to do evil, ¹  and the one who is morally filthy ²  must continue to be filthy. The ³  one who is righteous must continue to act righteously, and the one who is holy must continue to be holy.”

All those who behave wickedly ¹  do not understand – ²  those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; ¹  I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me. ² 

As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, ¹  may the Lord remove them, ²  along with those who behave wickedly! ³  May Israel experience peace! ⁴ 

They replied, ¹  “If this man ²  were not a criminal, ³  we would not have handed him over to you.” ⁴