(A)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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(A)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption[a] had come.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed

(A)to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,
    (B)and the day of vengeance of our God;
    to comfort all who mourn;

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10 (A)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (B)a day of vengeance,
    (C)to avenge himself on his foes.
(D)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (E)a sacrifice
    (F)in the north country (G)by the river Euphrates.

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Say to those who have an anxious heart,
    “Be strong; fear not!
(A)Behold, your God
    will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
    He will come and save you.”

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The Lord Will Not Forsake His People

94 O Lord, God of (A)vengeance,
    O God of vengeance, (B)shine forth!

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    for (A)his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged (B)the great prostitute
    who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and (C)has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

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20 (A)Rejoice over her, O heaven,
    and you saints and (B)apostles and prophets,
for (C)God has given judgment for you against her!”

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10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, (A)holy and true, (B)how long (C)before you will judge and (D)avenge our blood on (E)those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given (F)a white robe and (G)told to rest a little longer, (H)until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers[a] (I)should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:11 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters

since indeed God considers it (A)just (B)to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant (C)relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when (D)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven (E)with his mighty angels (F)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (G)who do not know God and on those who (H)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of (I)eternal destruction, (J)away from[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 (K)when he comes on (L)that day (M)to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our (N)testimony to you (O)was believed.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Or destruction that comes from

but for those who are self-seeking[a] and (A)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress (B)for every human being who does evil, the Jew (C)first and also the Greek,

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  1. Romans 2:8 Or contentious

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (A)storing up (B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

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And (A)will not God give justice to (B)his elect, (C)who cry to him day and night? (D)(E)Will he delay long over them?

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The Indictment of the Lord

(A)Hear what the Lord says:
Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
    and let the hills hear your voice.

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17 (A)He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
    and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
    and wrapped himself in (B)zeal as a cloak.
18 (C)According to their deeds, so will he repay,
    wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies;
    (D)to the coastlands he will render repayment.

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26 (A)I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,
    and they shall be drunk (B)with their own blood as with wine.
Then all flesh shall know
    that (C)I am the Lord your Savior,
    and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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21 (A)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of (B)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
    and will no more cover its slain.

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41 if I (A)sharpen my flashing sword[a]
    and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
    and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
    and (B)my sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
    from the (C)long-haired heads of the enemy.’

43 (D)“Rejoice with him, O heavens;[b]
    bow down to him, all gods,[c]
for he (E)avenges the blood of his children[d]
    and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him[e]
    and cleanses[f] his people's land.”[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:41 Hebrew the lightning of my sword
  2. Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text Rejoice his people, O nations
  3. Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text lacks bow down to him, all gods
  4. Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text servants
  5. Deuteronomy 32:43 Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks He repays those who hate him
  6. Deuteronomy 32:43 Or atones for
  7. Deuteronomy 32:43 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew his land his people

35 (A)Vengeance is mine, and recompense,[a]
    (B)for the time when their foot shall slip;
for (C)the day of their calamity is at hand,
    and their doom comes swiftly.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:35 Septuagint and I will repay

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