They cried out with a loud voice: “Lord, the One who is holy and true, how long until You judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?”

Then the Angel of the Lord responded, “How long, Lord of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah that You have been angry with these 70 years?”

“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia:

“The Holy One, the True One, the One who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and closes and no one opens says:

because His judgments are true and righteous,
because He has judged the notorious prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;
and He has avenged the blood of His slaves
that was on her hands.

The Lord will indeed vindicate His people
and have compassion on His servants
when He sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?

The nations were angry,
but Your wrath has come.
The time has come
for the dead to be judged
and to give the reward
to Your servants the prophets,
to the saints, and to those who fear Your name,
both small and great,
and the time has come to destroy
those who destroy the earth.

Then He said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!

He called out to the Lord: “Lord God, please remember me. Strengthen me, God, just once more. With one act of vengeance, let me pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”

“May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.

For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, how long will You forget me?
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue my life from their ravages,
my only one from the young lions.

The righteous one will rejoice
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.

Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.

Lord, how long will the wicked—
how long will the wicked gloat?

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of our God’s vengeance;
to comfort all who mourn,

Who is this coming from Edom
in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—
this One who is splendid in His apparel,
rising up proudly in His great might?


It is I, proclaiming vindication,
powerful to save.

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the speaker, “How long will the events of this vision last—the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and of the host to be trampled?”

One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the end of these extraordinary things?”

because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all the things that are written.

Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord.

since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

Because you have kept My command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come over the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are Your works,
Lord God, the Almighty;
righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the Nations.

I heard the angel of the waters say:

You are righteous,
who is and who was, the Holy One,
for You have decided these things.

Rejoice over her, heaven,
and you saints, apostles, and prophets,
because God has executed your judgment on her!

and the blood of prophets and saints,
and of all those slaughtered on earth,
was found in you.

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They cried

Then He said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground!
For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?
to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

Holy

“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia:

“The Holy One, the True One, the One who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and closes and no one opens says:
They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are Your works,
Lord God, the Almighty;
righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the Nations.

Dost

The nations were angry,
but Your wrath has come.
The time has come
for the dead to be judged
and to give the reward
to Your servants the prophets,
to the saints, and to those who fear Your name,
both small and great,
and the time has come to destroy
those who destroy the earth.
I heard the angel of the waters say:

You are righteous,
who is and who was, the Holy One,
for You have decided these things.
Rejoice over her, heaven,
and you saints, apostles, and prophets,
because God has executed your judgment on her!
because His judgments are true and righteous,
because He has judged the notorious prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;
and He has avenged the blood of His slaves
that was on her hands.
The Lord will indeed vindicate His people
and have compassion on His servants
when He sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.
He called out to the Lord: “Lord God, please remember me. Strengthen me, God, just once more. With one act of vengeance, let me pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”
“May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.
The righteous one will rejoice
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of our God’s vengeance;
to comfort all who mourn,
Who is this coming from Edom
in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—
this One who is splendid in His apparel,
rising up proudly in His great might?


It is I, proclaiming vindication,
powerful to save.
because these are days of vengeance to fulfill all the things that are written.
Friends, do not avenge yourselves; instead, leave room for His wrath. For it is written: Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay, says the Lord.
since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you

General references

God, how long will the enemy mock?
Will the foe insult Your name forever?
For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
Lord, after all this, will You restrain Yourself?
Will You keep silent and afflict severely?
“I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion before your very eyes.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.
ת TavYou will pay them back what they deserve, Lord,
according to the work of their hands.
since it is righteous for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you
In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

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