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!”

Psalms 94:1

Psalm 94 ² 

94:1 O Lord, the God who avenges!

O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! ³ 

Ezekiel 20:37

20:37 I will make you pass under ⁴  the shepherd’s staff, ⁵  and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Hebrews 10:28-30

10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death ⁶  without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. ⁷  10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for ⁸  the Son of God, and profanes ⁹  the blood of the covenant that made him holy, ¹⁰  and insults the Spirit of grace? 10:30 For we know the one who said, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” ¹¹  and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” ¹² 

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

² sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

³ tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).

³ tn This is the same Hebrew verb used to describe the passing of the children through the fire.

⁴ sn The metaphor may be based in Lev 27:32 (see also Jer 33:13; Matt 25:32-33). A shepherd would count his sheep as they passed beneath his staff.

⁴ tn Grk “dies.”

⁵ sn An allusion to Deut 17:6.

⁵ tn Grk “tramples under foot.”

⁶ tn Grk “regarded as common.”

⁷ tn Grk “by which he was made holy.”

⁶ sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.

⁷ sn A quotation from Deut 32:36.