Psalms 38:16

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

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

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.”

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

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

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

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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

Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

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.”

“ ‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments,

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

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

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

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

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “ ‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?

“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

“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.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.

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.

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

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

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

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.

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.

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.

Yahweh has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

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

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.”

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.