Do not say, “I’ll do to them as they have done to me; I’ll pay them back for what they did.”
Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!” Wait for the Lord, and he will avenge you.
Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.
Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?” He answered, “I merely did to them what they did to me.”