^2 (A)“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall ^(B)be gathered to your people.”

¹³ And when you have seen it, you also ^(A)shall ^[a]be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered.

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?”

² For ^(A)true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He ^(B)has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”

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

³⁰ For we know Him who said, ^(A)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” ^[a]says the Lord. And again, ^(B)“The Lord will judge His people.”

⁶ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ^(A)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

⁴ For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.

¹⁹ Beloved, ^(A)do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, ^(B)“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

³⁶ “For David, after he had served ^[a]his own generation by the will of God, ^(A)fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and ^[b]saw corruption;