31 Look! The righteous one—in the earth he will be rewarded.+ How much more should the wicked one and the sinner be!+

29 For, look! it is upon the city upon which my name is called that I am starting off in bringing calamity,+ and should YOU yourselves in any way go free of punishment?”’+

“‘YOU will not go free of punishment, for there is a sword that I am calling against all the inhabitants of the earth,’ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies.

47 And you must say to the forest of the south, ‘Hear the word of Jehovah. This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Here I am setting a fire ablaze against you,+ and it must devour in you every still-moist tree and every dry tree.+ The kindling flame will not be extinguished,+ and by it all faces must be scorched from [the] south to the north.+

17 For it is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God.+ Now if it starts first with us,+ what will the end be of those who are not obedient to the good news of God?+