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30 For we know the one who said,

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

He also said,

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

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:36 Or will take revenge for.

19 Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say,

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

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Footnotes

  1. 12:19 Deut 32:35.

The Lord’s Anger against Nineveh

The Lord is a jealous God,
    filled with vengeance and rage.
He takes revenge on all who oppose him
    and continues to rage against his enemies!

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

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10 For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.

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14 For the Lord will give justice to his people
    and have compassion on his servants.

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13 before the Lord, for he is coming!
    He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with justice,
    and the nations with his truth.

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The authorities are God’s servants, sent for your good. But if you are doing wrong, of course you should be afraid, for they have the power to punish you. They are God’s servants, sent for the very purpose of punishing those who do what is wrong.

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He has sent me to tell those who mourn
    that the time of the Lord’s favor has come,[a]
    and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. 61:2 Or to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

before the Lord,
    for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with justice,
    and the nations with fairness.

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30 “Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign Lord. Repent, and turn from your sins. Don’t let them destroy you!

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17 “And as for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to his people: I will judge between one animal of the flock and another, separating the sheep from the goats.

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For the time has come for me to avenge my people,
    to ransom them from their oppressors.

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17 He put on righteousness as his body armor
    and placed the helmet of salvation on his head.
He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance
    and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.

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Psalm 94

O Lord, the God of vengeance,
    O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth!

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