Quotes About Vengeance

So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the lives of those you killed!”

And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Hamanís house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,

Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.

The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let Your burning anger overtake them.

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.

May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.

to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.

Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”