Deuteronomy 32:35

32:35 I will get revenge and pay them back

at the time their foot slips;

for the day of their disaster is near,

and the impending judgment ¹  is rushing upon them!”

Deuteronomy 32:42

32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword will devour flesh –

the blood of the slaughtered and captured,

the chief ²  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

Psalms 94:1

Psalm 94 ³ 

94:1 O Lord, the God who avenges!

O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! ⁴ 

Isaiah 59:17-18

59:17 He wears his desire for justice ⁵  like body armor, ⁶ 

and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. ⁷ 

He puts on the garments of vengeance ⁸ 

and wears zeal like a robe.

59:18 He repays them for what they have done,

dispensing angry judgment to his adversaries

and punishing his enemies. ⁹ 

He repays the coastlands. ¹⁰ 

Romans 12:19

12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, ¹¹  for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” ¹²  says the Lord.

Romans 13:4

13:4 for it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God’s servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

Hebrews 10:30

10:30 For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” ¹³  and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.

² tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).

³ sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

⁴ tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).

⁴ tn Or “righteousness” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NCV “goodness.”

⁵ tn Or “a breastplate” (traditional; so many English versions); TEV “a coat of armour.”

⁶ tn Heb “and [as] a helmet deliverance on his head.”

⁷ tn Heb “and he puts on the clothes of vengeance [as] a garment.”

⁵ tn Heb “in accordance with deeds, so he repays, anger to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies.”

⁶ tn Or “islands” (KJV, NIV).

⁶ tn Grk “the wrath,” referring to God’s wrath as the remainder of the verse shows.

⁷ sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.

⁷ sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.

⁸ sn A quotation from Deut 32:36.