28 Bible Verses about God Requite Them!

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?

He allowed no man to oppress them;
He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,

The nations roar on like the roaring of many waters,
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before the storm.

You rebuke the presumptuous and arrogant, the cursed ones,
Who wander from Your commandments.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and [the Feared One] of Isaac, had not been with me, most certainly you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the [exhausting] labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment and rebuked you last night.”

O Lord, do not rebuke or punish me in Your anger,
Nor discipline me in Your wrath.

O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your wrath,
Nor discipline me in Your burning anger.

Do not add to His words,
Or He will reprove you, and you will be found a liar.

And I will bring an everlasting disgrace on you and a perpetual humiliation (shame) which will not be forgotten.”

Ephraim has provoked most bitter anger;
So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him [invoking punishment]
And bring back to him his shame and dishonor.

And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! Even the Lord, who [now and ever] has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is this not a log snatched and rescued from the fire?”

But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil (Satan), and arguing about the body of Moses, did not dare bring an abusive condemnation against him, but [simply] said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

Behold, I am going to rebuke your seed, and I will spread the refuse on your faces, the refuse from the festival offerings; and you will be taken away with it [in disgrace].

and you have forgotten the divine word of encouragement which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not make light of the discipline of the Lord,
And do not lose heart and give up when you are corrected by Him;

“These things you have done and I kept silent;
You thought that I was just like you.
Now I will reprimand and denounce you and state the case in order before your eyes.

“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you—
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

For those whom the Lord loves He corrects,
Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I rebuke and discipline [showing them their faults and instructing them]; so be enthusiastic and repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, your sinful behavior—seek God’s will].

“Behold, how happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves,
So do not despise or reject the discipline of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering].

O Lord, correct me [along with Your people], but with mercy and in just measure—
Not in Your anger, or You will crush me and bring me to nothing.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your [angry] appearance.

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.

At Your rebuke they fled;
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

“The channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were uncovered
At the rebuke of the Lord,
At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Then the stream beds of the waters appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare
At Your rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

To defraud a man in his lawsuit—
The Lord does not approve of these things.