Deuteronomy 32:41

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

when I whet my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.

Cross References

Psalm 149:9

to execute on them the judgment decreed. This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 31:23

Love the Lord, all you his saints. The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily.

Psalm 7:12

If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

Psalm 7:13

he has prepared his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me

Isaiah 1:24

Therefore says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Surely I will pour out my wrath on my enemies and avenge myself on my foes!

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 59:18

According to their deeds, so will he repay wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.

Isaiah 66:16

For by fire will the Lord execute judgment, and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

Isaiah 66:6

Listen, a roar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of the Lord, dealing retribution to his enemies!

Jeremiah 44:26

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: I swear by my great name, says the Lord, that my name shall no longer be pronounced on the lips of any of the people of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord God lives.’

Jeremiah 50:18

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: 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 the land of Babylon are coming to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 50:29

Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 21:20

mark out the road for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites or to Judah and to Jerusalem the fortified.

Ezekiel 25:14

I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 32:10

I will make many peoples appalled at you; their kings shall shudder because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, they shall tremble every moment for their lives, each one of them, on the day of your downfall.

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and prolongs it against his enemies.

Zephaniah 2:12

You also, O Cushites, shall be killed by my sword.

Numbers 10:35

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered and your foes flee before you.”

Mark 1:2

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,

Romans 8:7

For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,

Deuteronomy 32:35

for the day of vengeance and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip? Because the day of their calamity is at hand; their doom comes swiftly.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me

Deuteronomy 7:10

and who repays in their own person those who reject him. He does not delay but repays in their own person those who reject him.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,