Of the Wicked: God is glorified in, Ex. 14:4; Ezek. 38:22,23. God holds in derision, Psa. 37:13; Prov. 1:26,27. Are multiplied, Deut. 31:17; Job 20:5; 21:17; Psa. 32:10; continual, Job 15:20; Eccl. 2:23; Isa. 32:10; often sudden, Psa. 73:19; Prov. 6:15; Isa. 30:13; Rev. 18:10. Are often judicially sent, Job 21:17; Psa. 107:17; Jer. 30:15. Are for examples to others, Psa. 64:7-9; Zeph. 3:6,7; 1 Cor. 10:5,11; 2 Pet. 2:6. Are ineffectual for their conversion, Ex. 9:30; Isa. 9:13; Jer. 2:30; Hag. 2:17. Their persecution of saints, a cause of, Deut. 30:7; Psa. 55:19; Zech. 2:9; 2 Thess. 1:6. Impenitence is a cause of, Prov. 1:30,31; Ezek. 24:13; Amos 4:6-12; Zech. 7:11,12; Rev. 2:21,22. Sometimes humble them, 1 Kin. 21:27. Frequently harden, Neh. 9:28,29; Jer. 5:3. Produce slavish fear, Job 15:24; Psa. 73:19; Jer. 49:3,5. Saints should not be alarmed at, Prov. 3:25,26. Exemplified: in Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Ex. 9:14,15; 14:24,25; Ahaziah, 2 Kin. 1:1-4; Gehazi, 2 Kin. 5:27; Jehoram, 2 Chr. 21:12-19; Uzziah, 2 Chr. 26:19-21; Ahaz, etc., 2 Chr. 28:5-8,22.