Psalms 68:23

You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.

“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.

A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession. He shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people not each be scattered from his possession.” ’ ”

He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Only don’t rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don’t fear them.”

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

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.

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.

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

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.”

He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.

“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said, “News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”

The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field: for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.”

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.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

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

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

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, Yahweh.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

“You shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” ’

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

“Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, ‘Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.’

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

“ ‘ “For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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

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?”

The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.

The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”