Quotes About Retribution

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

“Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”

The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.

then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.

the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.

I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.

At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglonís fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglonís bowels emptied.

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baalís altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”