Matthew 27:25

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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.

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

“Will you judge them, son of man? Will you judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.

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

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.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

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

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

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 you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

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.

She fell at his feet, and said, “On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.

The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

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 have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

“Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.

Yahweh said moreover to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.

Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

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

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

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

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from within it, by the spirit of justice and by the spirit of burning.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city, to the cauldron whose rust is in it, and whose rust hasn’t gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece. No lot is fallen on it.

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, “Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

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

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

“ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”

“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.

“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

“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.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

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

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.

So their blood will return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh.”

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

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

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

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!”

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

“ ‘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.

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.