So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
Joel 3:7 - English Standard Version 2016 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head. Matoleo zaidiKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, I will stir them up out of the place to which you have sold them and will return your deed [of retaliation] upon your own head. American Standard Version (1901) behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head; Common English Bible But now I am calling them from the places where you have sold them, and I will repay you for your deeds. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, I will raise them up from the place into which you have sold them, and I will turn back your retribution on your own head. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads. |
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.”
“The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the Lord, rendering recompense to his enemies!
but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”
“Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.
Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here.
Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.
I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them.
“What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.
For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,
For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”
for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.