Deuteronomy 32:41

God's Word

I will sharpen my flashing sword and take justice into my own hands. Then I will take revenge on my enemies and pay back those who hate me.

Cross References

Psalm 149:9

to carry out the judgment that is written against them. This is an honor that belongs to all his godly ones. Hallelujah!

Psalm 31:23

Love the Lord, all you godly ones! The Lord protects faithful people, but he pays back in full those who act arrogantly.

Psalm 7:12

If a person does not change, God sharpens his sword. By bending his bow, he makes it ready ⌞to shoot⌟.

Psalm 7:13

He prepares his deadly weapons and turns them into flaming arrows.

Exodus 20:5

Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Isaiah 1:24

That’s why the Lord, the Lord of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says, “How horrible it will be when I take revenge on my opponents! I will avenge myself against my enemies.

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord will use his fierce and powerful sword to punish Leviathan, that slippery snake, Leviathan, that twisting snake. He will kill that monster which lives in the sea.

Isaiah 59:18

He will pay them back according to their deeds. He will pay back his opponents with wrath and punish his enemies. He will pay back the people who live on the coastlands.

Isaiah 66:16

The Lord will judge with fire, and he will judge all people with his sword. Many people will be struck dead by the Lord.

Isaiah 66:6

Listen to the uproar from the city. Listen to the sound from the temple. It is the sound of the Lord paying back his enemies as they deserve.

Jeremiah 44:26

But listen to the Lord’s word, all you people of Judah who live in Egypt. ‘I swear by my great name,’ says the Lord, ‘that no one from Judah who lives anywhere in Egypt will ever again call on my name and take the oath, “As the Almighty Lord lives.”

Jeremiah 50:18

“This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.

Jeremiah 50:28

Listen! Fugitives and refugees from Babylon are coming to Zion to tell about the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Call together the archers, the soldiers with bows, against Babylon. Set up blockades around it. Don’t let anyone escape. Pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done. Do to them what they did to others. They have disobeyed the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 21:20

Mark the road that the king and his sword can take to the Ammonite city of Rabbah, and mark the road that leads to Judah and the fortified city of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will use my people Israel to take revenge on Edom. My people will deal with Edom based on my anger and my fury. Then the Edomites will know my revenge, declares the Almighty Lord.

Ezekiel 32:10

Many people will be shocked by what I will do to you. Their kings will shudder when I swing my sword in their faces. When you die, all of them will tremble in fear for their own lives.

Nahum 1:2

God does not tolerate rivals. The Lord takes revenge. The Lord takes revenge and is full of anger. The Lord takes revenge against his enemies and holds a grudge against his foes.

Zephaniah 2:12

“Even you, the people from Sudan, you will also die by my sword.”

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark started to move, Moses would say, “Arise, O Lord! Scatter your enemies! Make those who hate you run away from you!”

Mark 1:2

The prophet Isaiah wrote, “I am sending my messenger ahead of you to prepare the way for you.”

Romans 1:30

slanderers, haters of God, haughty, arrogant, and boastful. They think up new ways to be cruel. They don’t obey their parents,

Romans 8:7

This is so because the corrupt nature has a hostile attitude toward God. It refuses to place itself under the authority of God’s standards because it can’t.

Deuteronomy 32:35

I will take revenge and be satisfied. In due time their foot will slip, because their day of disaster is near. Their doom is coming quickly.

Deuteronomy 5:9

Never worship them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a God who does not tolerate rivals. I punish children for their parents’ sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Deuteronomy 7:10

But he sends destruction to pay back everyone who hates him. He never takes long to pay back anyone who hates him.

2 Timothy 3:4

They will be traitors. They will be reckless and conceited. They will love pleasure rather than God.