Quotes about Punishment

Where the happy medium cannot be attained, it is better and safer to fall short on this side than on that; that is, too much mercy is better than too much punishment. One can withdraw and reduce too much mercy; but punishment cannot be taken back, especially where it touches body, life, or limb.

The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.

a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says the LORD.

In a sort of negative proof of the power of prayer, three times God commanded Jeremiah to stop praying; God wanted no alteration in his plans to punish a rebellious nation.

So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.

The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.