Habakkuk 1:2

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.”

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

“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:

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

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

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

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?”

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.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

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.”

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

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.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’

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.”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, “like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh”.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

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

for Yahweh your God walks in the middle of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you. Therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.

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.

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.”

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

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.”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

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?

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

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

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”

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.

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.

“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

“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.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

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?”

One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be to the end of these wonders?”

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

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

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?”