Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

(For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

King James Version

For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

Holman Bible

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.

International Standard Version

For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for Zion's cause.

A Conservative Version

For LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

American Standard Version

For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Amplified


For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.

Bible in Basic English

For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.

Darby Translation

For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

Julia Smith Translation

For a day of vengeance to Jehovah, a year of retributions for the contention of Zion.

King James 2000

For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For {Yahweh has a day of vengeance}, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.

Modern King James verseion

For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year to repay for the fighting against Zion.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Unto thee also, O Zion, shall come the day of the vengeance of God, and the year when thine own judgments shall be recompensed.

NET Bible

For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

New Heart English Bible

For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

The Emphasized Bible

For a day of avenging, hath Yahweh, - A year of requitals for the quarrel of Zion.

Webster

For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

World English Bible

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For it is the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

of the Lord's

Usage: 0

נקם 
Naqam 
Usage: 17

and the year
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

שׁלּם שׁלּוּם 
Shilluwm 
Usage: 3

רב ריב 
Riyb 
Usage: 60

References

American

Hastings

Context Readings

Judgment On The Nations

7 And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat. 8 (For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,) 9 And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

Cross References

Isaiah 63:4

For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come.

Isaiah 61:2

To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners.

Psalm 94:1

God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.

Isaiah 35:4

Say to the hastened of heart, 'Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

Deuteronomy 32:35

Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

Deuteronomy 32:41-43

If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

Isaiah 26:21

For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

Isaiah 49:26

And I have caused thine oppressors to eat their own flesh, And as new wine they drink their own blood, And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Thy saviour, and thy redeemer, Am the Mighty One of Jacob!'

Isaiah 59:17-18

And He putteth on righteousness as a breastplate, And an helmet of salvation on His head, And He putteth on garments of vengeance for clothing, And is covered, as with an upper-robe, with zeal.

Jeremiah 46:10

And that day is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts A day of vengeance, To be avenged of His adversaries, And the sword hath devoured, and been satisfied, And it hath been watered from their blood, For a sacrifice is to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, In the land of the north, by the river Phrat.

Micah 6:1

Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: 'Rise -- strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.'

Luke 18:7

and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?

Romans 2:5

but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Romans 2:8-9

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

2 Thessalonians 1:6-10

since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,

Revelation 6:10-11

and they were crying with a great voice, saying, 'Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'

Revelation 18:20

'Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

Revelation 19:2

because true and righteous are His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'

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