1 Samuel 24:15

24:15 May the Lord be our judge and arbiter. May he see and arbitrate my case and deliver me from your hands!”

1 Samuel 25:26

25:26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as surely as you live, it is the Lord who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:38

25:38 After about ten days the Lord struck Nabal down and he died.

Psalms 94:1-2

Psalm 94 ¹ 

94:1 O Lord, the God who avenges!

O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! ² 

94:2 Rise up, O judge of the earth!

Pay back the proud!

Psalms 94:23

94:23 He will pay them back for their sin. ³ 

He will destroy them because of ⁴  their evil;

the Lord our God will destroy them.

Luke 18:7

18:7 Won’t ⁵  God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out ⁶  to him day and night? ⁷  Will he delay ⁸  long to help them?

Romans 12:19

12:19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, ⁹  for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” ¹⁰  says the Lord.

Revelation 18:8

18:8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues ¹¹  in a single day: disease, ¹²  mourning, ¹³  and famine, and she will be burned down ¹⁴  with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

[94:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

[94:1]  ² tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).

[94:23]  ³ tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.

[94:23]  ⁴ tn Or “in.”

[18:7]  ⁵ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[18:7]  ⁶ sn The prayers have to do with the righteous who cry out to him to receive justice. The context assumes the righteous are persecuted.

[18:7]  ⁷ tn The emphatic particles in this sentence indicate that God will indeed give justice to the righteous.

[18:7]  ⁸ sn The issue of delay has produced a whole host of views for this verse. (1) Does this assume provision to endure in the meantime? Or (2) does it mean God restricts the level of persecution until he comes? Either view is possible.

[12:19]  ⁹ tn Grk “the wrath,” referring to God’s wrath as the remainder of the verse shows.

[12:19]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation from Deut 32:35.

[18:8]  ¹¹ tn Grk “For this reason, her plagues will come.”

[18:8]  ¹² tn Grk “death.” θάνατος (qanatos) can in particular contexts refer to a manner of death, specifically a contagious disease (see BDAG 443 s.v. 3; L&N 23.158).

[18:8]  ¹³ tn This is the same Greek word (πένθος, penqo") translated “grief” in vv. 7-8.

[18:8]  ¹⁴ tn Here “burned down” was used to translate κατακαυθήσεται (katakauqhsetai) because a city is in view.