"And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed."
When you consider the plight of all the wicked, that their eternity in hell is fixed, it is more than one can stand. Regardless of whether you know them or not, matters nothing, it is the same eternity for these that have rejected Christ. In earlier verses of this chapter, God has declared His' "I will" purge and separate the righteous and the wicked. This verse tells us the end result of the wicked.
And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together - word study, sin (sinner); We see God has made His declaration about the wicked and will cut them off; Transgressor - the person that violates God's commands and goes beyond the limits of what God has said. Sinner - the person that sins; a reprobate in the eyes of God. The sinner and the transgressor are set at nought away from God, for He is holy. in the spectrum of variance, sin is at one end of the spectrum, and holy is at the other end. The two cannot exist in the same plain. You either are holy, or you are a sinner that transgresses God's law.
Because God is holy, when the sinner comes to Him for salvation, God removes the sin so that He may impart His holiness upon that soul. Thereby, He calls them His Own, for they are holy as He is holy. But those that will not surrender and yield to Him as Lord and Savior are counted as enemies unto our Lord. The saved are holy children of God and are called Sheep, children of light. Those that reject are called servants of Satan, goats, children of darkness. Holy children of light die and go to heaven to be with their Lord. Wicked, evil children of darkness die and go to hell to be with all other sinners and transgressors.
The edict of their end is pronounced here, 'they shall be destroyed together'.
