2 Samuel 16:8

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord.”

Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”

They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

Yahweh forbid that I should stretch out my hand against Yahweh’s anointed; but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let’s go.”

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

They will be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”