35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.

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20 (A)“Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you [a]holy apostles and prophets, for (B)God has avenged you on her!”

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:20 NU, M saints and apostles

29 “Call together the archers against Babylon.
All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;
Let none of them [a]escape.
(A)Repay her according to her work;
According to all she has done, do to her;
(B)For she has been proud against the Lord,
Against the Holy One of Israel.

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  1. Jeremiah 50:29 Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add to her

(A)Render to her just as she rendered [a]to you, and repay her double according to her works; (B)in the cup which she has mixed, (C)mix double for her.

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  1. Revelation 18:6 NU, M omit to you

For (A)they have shed the blood (B)of saints and prophets,
(C)And You have given them blood to drink.
[a]For it is their just due.”

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  1. Revelation 16:6 NU, M omit For

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, (A)“How long, O Lord, (B)holy and true, (C)until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown (B)no (C)mercy. (D)Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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For with what [a]judgment you judge, you will be judged; (A)and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

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  1. Matthew 7:2 Condemnation

15 I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For (A)I was a little angry,
And they helped—but with evil intent.

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Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

20 Come, my people, (A)enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, (B)for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.
21 For behold, the Lord (C)comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her [a]blood,
And will no more cover her slain.

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  1. Isaiah 26:21 Or bloodshed

O daughter of Babylon, (A)who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one (B)who repays you as you have served us!
Happy the one who takes and (C)dashes
Your little ones against the rock!

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“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord;
“I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

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12 (A)When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the [a]humble.

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  1. Psalm 9:12 afflicted

56 (A)Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father by killing his seventy brothers. 57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem God returned on their own heads, and on them came (B)the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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24 (A)that the crime done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be settled and their (B)blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brothers.

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20 But if not, (A)let fire come from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and Beth Millo; and let fire come from the men of Shechem and from Beth Millo and devour Abimelech!”

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