As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.