They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all {other}, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. {are gone: Heb. are not} {taken...: Heb. closed up}

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {it is...: Heb. it is not}

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. {a green...: or, a green tree that groweth in his own soil}

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of {thy} dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. {destroy...: Heb. beat thee down}

The righteous shall see {it}, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

But God said unto him, {Thou} fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? {thy...: Gr. do they require thy soul}

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where {is} he? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, {and} consider thee, {saying, Is} this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

For he seeth {that} wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed {woman}, and bury her: for she {is} a king's daughter.

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.

And it came to pass about ten days {after}, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

Then said {Jehu} to Bidkar his captain, Take up, {and} cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he {was} not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all {other}, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. {are gone: Heb. are not} {taken...: Heb. closed up}

And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never {shalt be} any more. {a terror: Heb. terrors} {never...: Heb. shalt not be for ever}

The wicked are overthrown, and {are} not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

David said furthermore, {As} the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it {is} a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry {land};

If he destroy him from his place, then {it} shall deny him, {saying}, I have not seen thee.