Isaiah 8:15

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

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.”

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring the children of Israel out from among them.”

Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they both fall together.”

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay my vengeance on them.” ’ ”

therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold: I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

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.

You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

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

Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together will stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend will perish.”

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

“Egypt is a very beautiful heifer; but destruction out of the north has come. It has come.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

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

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

“Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,