“I will take revenge.
    I will pay them back.”^[a]

“The Lord will judge his own people.”^[b]

³⁵ I will take revenge; I will pay them back.
    In due time their feet will slip.
Their day of disaster will arrive,
    and their destiny will overtake them.’

³⁶ “Indeed, the Lord will give justice to his people,
    and he will change his mind about^[a] his servants,
when he sees their strength is gone
    and no one is left, slave or free.

“I will take revenge;
    I will pay them back,”^[a]
    says the Lord.

⁴ He calls on the heavens above and earth below
    to witness the judgment of his people.