This is what the Lord says to me: “As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey— and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against him, he is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor— so the Lord Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.
Isaiah 31: 4
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6
See, the day of the Lord is coming
—a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—
to make the land desolate
and destroy the sinners within it.
The stars of heaven and their constellations
will not show their light.
The rising sun will be darkened
and the moon will not give its light.
I will punish the world for its evil, 
the wicked for their sins.
I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
I will make man scarcer than pure gold,
more rare than the gold of Ophir.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the Lord Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger.
Isaiah 13:9-13
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against his Anointed One. “Let us break their chains,” they say, “and throw off their fetters.”Psalm 2:1-3
The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath,..
Psalm 2:4.5
“Vex them;” either by horror of conscience, or corporal plaques;
one way or the other he will have his pennyworths of them, as he always
has had of the persecutors of his people.
-John Trapp (1601-1669)
When Pontius Pilate and the Jews conspire to destroy the cause of God, the Lord not only has them in derision but over-rules even their malice and violence to promote that very cause they attempted to destroy; so that it is a very wrong maxim, and argues great ignorance in us, to imagine that God never brings about his designs by the means and instrumentality of wicked men.
This is the Papists’ objection against the Reformation; great pains have been taken to blacken the reformers, and to make it believed that a reformation could not be good, that was begun by people of bad character, and a king of an immoral life. But so far is this from eclipsing, that it illustrates the wisdom and goodness of divine Providence, in obliging the wicked to do what they never designed, and over-ruling their counsels for the fulfilling God’s holy, wise, and sovereign decree.
George Whitefield (1714-1770)
“The severest punishment awaits the despisers of the Gospel, since the ancients
under the law did not despise it with impunity.
John Calvin (1509-1564)
When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding;
but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.
Proverbs 28:28
Give ear to my words, O Lord,
consider my sighing.
Psalm 5:1
“It is certain that the greater part of men, as they babble out vain, languid, and inefficacious prayers, most unworthy the ear of the blessed God, so they seem in some degree to set a just estimate upon them, neither hoping for any success from them, nor indeed seeming to be at all solicitous about it, but committing them to the mind as vain words, which in truth they are. But far be it from a wise and pious man, that he should so foolishly and coldly trifle in so serious an affair; his prayer has a certain tendency and scope, at which he aims with assiduous and repeated desires, and doth not only pray that he may pray, but that he may obtain an answer; and as he firmly believes that it may be obtained, so he firmly, and constantly, and eagerly urges his petition, that he may not flatter himself with an empty hope.”
Robert Leighton, D.D.(1611-1684)
The Treasury of David Classic Reflections on the Wisdom of the Psalms
by Charles H Spurgeon page 49.
Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for to you I pray.
Morning by morning, O Lord, you hear my voice;
morning by morning I lay my requests before you
and wait in expectation.
Psalm 5:2-3
“If you do not believe, why do you pray? And if you believe, why do you not expect? By praying you seem to depend on God; by not expecting, you again renounce your confidence. What is this, but to take his name in vain? O Christian, stand to your prayer in a holy expectation of what you have begged upon the credit of promise…. Mordecai, no doubt, had put up many prayers for Esther, and therefore he waits at the king’s gate, looking what answer God would in his providence give thereunto.
Do thou likewise.”
William Gurnall (1616-1679)
The Treasury of David Classic Reflections on the Wisdom of the Psalms
by Charles H Spurgeon page 51.