Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

From heaven

Bible References

From heaven

2 Chronicles 6:21
Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.

Requiting

Numbers 5:27
When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
2 Kings 9:26
'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD; 'and I will repay you in this plot of ground,' says the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD."
Psalm 10:14
But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked. Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
Jeremiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against the LORD.'"
Jeremiah 51:56
for the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for the LORD is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
Romans 2:9
suffering and distress, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Justifying

Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
Isaiah 3:10
Tell the righteous "Good." For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.
Romans 2:10
But glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.