The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

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}

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Whoso {is} wise, and will observe these {things}, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast {them} down to hell, and delivered {them} into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

I have overthrown {some} of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Who {is} wise, and he shall understand these {things}? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD {are} right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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}

For ye say, Where {is} the house of the prince? and where {are} the dwelling places of the wicked? {the dwelling...: Heb. the tent of the tabernacles}

Righteousness keepeth {him that is} upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. {the sinner: Heb. sin}

His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! {coveteth...: or, gaineth and evil gain} {power...: Heb. palm of the hand}

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

This {is} the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, {which} they shall receive of the Almighty.

The curse of the LORD {is} in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.

Righteousness keepeth {him that is} upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. {the sinner: Heb. sin}

Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:

{It is} joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction {shall be} to the workers of iniquity.