Esther 8:13

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps.” ’ ” So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, “How long will the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot be?”

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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.”

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

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

Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.”

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

The little one will become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation. I, Yahweh, will do this quickly in its time.”

Will you hold yourself back for these things, Yahweh? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” 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.

“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.