Exodus 21:23-25

21:23 But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life, 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. ¹ 

Isaiah 14:2

14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land. ²  They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.

Isaiah 33:1

The Lord Will Restore Zion

33:1 The destroyer is as good as dead, ³ 

you who have not been destroyed!

The deceitful one is as good as dead, ⁴ 

the one whom others have not deceived!

When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed;

when you finish ⁵  deceiving, others will deceive you!

Matthew 7:2

7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ⁶ 

¹ sn The text now introduces the Lex Talionis with cases that were not likely to have applied to the situation of the pregnant woman. See K. Luke, “Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth,” Indian Theological Studies 16 (1979): 326-43.

² tn Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.”

³ tn Heb “Woe [to] the destroyer.”

⁴ tn Heb “and the deceitful one”; NAB, NIV “O traitor”; NRSV “you treacherous one.” In the parallel structure הוֹי (hoy, “woe [to]”) does double duty.

⁵ tc The form in the Hebrew text appears to derive from an otherwise unattested verb נָלָה (nalah). The translation follows the Qumran scroll 1QIsa^a in reading ככלתך, a Piel infinitival form from the verbal root כָּלָה (kalah), meaning “finish.”

⁶ tn Grk “by [the measure] with which you measure it will be measured to you.”