Job 7:19

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:

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

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?

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

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.”

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

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.

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

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.”

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.”

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

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.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

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

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

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

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

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

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

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

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, houses without man, the land becomes utterly waste,

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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?

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.

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

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?”

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

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.

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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.

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?”