78 Bible Verses about Retribution

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me; And doing kindness to thousands to them loving me and to them watching my commands.

Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

For we know him having said, Vengeance to me, I will give back, says the Lord. And again, The Lord will judge his people.

To me vengeance and requital; At the time their foot shall waver: For the day of their destruction is near, And he hastened things prepared for them

And Jehovah will say to Moses, whoever that sinned against me I will wipe him off from my book' And now go, lead the people to where I spake to thee: behold, my messenger shall go before thee: and in the day of my reviewing, and I reviewed upon them their sin.

And if by these ye will not be admonished by me, and ye went hostile with me; And I went also hostile with you, and I struck you, also I, seven for your sins. And I brought upon you the sword to avenge vengeance of the covenant: and ye were gathered into your cities and I sent death in the midst of you, and ye were given into the hand of the enemy.

And know thou that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, watching the covenant and the kindness to those loving him, and to those watching his commands to the thousandth generation: And recompensing to those hating him to their face to destroy him: he will not delay to him hating him to his face; he will recompense to him.

If I sharpened the lightning of my sword, And my hand shall lay hold upon judgment, I will turn back vengeance to mine adversaries, And to those hating me I will requite, I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall eat flesh, From the blood of the wounded and the captivity, From the head of the enemy's leaders. Rejoice ye nations with him, For he will raise up the blood of his servants, And he will turn back vengeance to his adversaries, And he will expiate for his land, his people.

For the work of man shall he recompense to him, and a man shall find himself according to his way.

If thou shalt say, Behold, we knew not this; will not he trying hearts, understand? and he guarding thy soul, knew? and he turned back to man according to his work.

For this says the lord Jehovah of armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo! I will take vengeance of mine adversaries, and I will avenge myself of mine enemies:

God is jealous and Jehovah avenging; Jehovah avenging and possessing wrath; Jehovah avenging to his adversaries and he keeping for his enemies.

Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?

For I will call the name of Jehovah: Give ye greatness to our God. The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.

And it will be when Rehoboam established the kingdom, and when he strengthened himself, he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him And it will be in the fifth year to king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, (for they transgressed against Jehovah,) With a thousand and two hundred chariots, and with sixty thousand horsemen: and no number to the people that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, Sukkims, and the Cushites.read more.
And he will take fortified cities which were to Judah and he will come even to Jerusalem. And Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and the chiefs of Judah who were gathered together to Jerusalem from the face of Shishak, and he will say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Ye forsook me, and I also left you in the hand of Shishak. And the chiefs of Israel, and the king, will humble themselves; and they will say, Jehovah is just.

The just one shall rejoice as seeing vengeance: he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the unjust one. And man shall say, Truly, fruit to the just one: truly there is a God judging in the earth.

How shall I forgive to thee for this? thy sons forsook me, and they will swear by not God; and I will satisfy them, and they will commit adultery, and they will crowd themselves together to the house of the harlot They were horses seducing to fornication: roaming about, they will neigh, a man for the wife of his neighbor. For these shall I not review? says Jehovah; and shalt not my soul be avenged upon a nation such as this?

My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I

He dug a pit, and he will dig it out, and he will fall into the pitfall he will make. His trouble shall turn back upon his head, and his violence shall come down upon his crown.

The unjust let loose the sword, and they bent their bow; they cast down the poor and needy, to slaughter the upright of way. Their sword shall go into their heart, and their bows shall be broken.

And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls.

He digging a pit shall fall into it: and he rolling a stone it shall turn back upon him.

He causing the upright to wander in an evil way, into his pit shall he fall: and the good shall inherit complete things.

Then says Jesus to him, Turn back thy sword to its place: for all they having taken the sword, shall perish by the sword.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap. For he sowing to his flesh of the flesh shall reap corruption; but he sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap eternal life.

He pouring out man's blood, by man his blood shall be poured out: for in the image of God he made man.

And if there shall be harm, and he gave soul for soul, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil.

And when a man shall smite any soul of man, dying, he shall die. And he smiting the soul of cattle, shall recompense soul for soul. And when a man shall give a blemish in his neighbor, as he did so it shall be done to him:read more.
Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he shall give a blemish in a man so it shall be given in him. And be smiting cattle shall recompense it; and he smiting man, shall die. One judgment to you; as the stranger so the native shall it be: for I Jehovah your God.

And if with an instrument of iron he smote him, the slayer shall die; the slayer he dying. shall die. And if with a stone of the hand which he shall die by it he smote him, he the slayer shall die; dying, the slayer shall die. Or with an instrument of wood of the hand, which he shall die by it he smote him, he the slayer shall die; dying, the slayer shall die.read more.
The nearest relative of blood he shall kill the slayer: in his meeting him he shall kill him. And if in hatred he thrust at him, or cast upon him, or in lying in wait, he shall die. Or in enmity he smote with his hand, and he will die; dying, he smiting shall die; he is a slayer: the nearest relative of blood shall kill the slayer in his meeting him. And if suddenly, not in enmity, he thrust him, or cast upon him any instrument in not lying in wait, Or with any stone which he shall die by it in not seeing, and it will fall upon him and he shall die, and he not an enemy to him and not seeking his hurt: And the assembly judged between him smiting, and between the nearest relation of blood according to these judgments: And the assembly delivered the slayer out of the hand of the nearest relation of blood, and the assembly turned him back to the city of his refuge where he fled there: and he dwelt in it till the death of the great priest who anointed him with the holy oil.

Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.

Thou shalt not say, According to what he did to me, thus will I do to him: I will turn back to the man according to his work.

Ye have heard, that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.

Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their doings, according to the word of their hands; give to them, turn back to them their recompense.

Even though just with God to return pressure to them pressing you; And to you being pressed a release with us, in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power, In fire of flame giving vengeance to them not knowing God, and to them not listening to the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ:read more.
Who shall undergo punishment, eternal ruin from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he should come to be honoured in his holy ones, and to be admired in all the believing, (that our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? He will make known among the nations before our eyes the vengeance of the blood of thy servants being poured out.

O God of vengeance, O Jehovah God of vengeance, shine forth. Be thou lifted up judging the earth: turn back retribution upon the proud.

O daughter of Babel laying waste; happy he recompensing to thee thy retribution thou didst to us Happy he taking hold and dashing in pieces thy children against the rock.

Thou wilt turn back to them a retribution, O Jehovah, according to the work Of their hands. Thou wilt give to them a covering of heart, thy curse to them. Thou wilt pursue in thine anger, and thou wilt destroy them from under the heavens, O Jehovah.

And the sea gave the dead in it; and death and hades gave the dead in them: and they were judged each one according to their works.

Once God spake; twice I heard this; that strength is to God. And to thee, O Jehovah, mercy: for thou wilt recompense to each according to his work.

Wonder not at this: for the hour comes, in which all they in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall go forth; They having done good, to rising up of life; and they having done bad, to rising up of judgment.

And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God; Who will give back to each according to his works: To them truly by perseverance of the good work they seek glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:read more.
But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath, Affliction and distress, upon every soul of man working evil, both of the Jew first, and of the Greek; But glory, and honour, and peace, to every one working good, both to the Jew first, and to the Greek: For there is no distinction of persons with God.

And Jehovah God will say to the serpent, Because thou didst this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy life.

And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall lie in wait for thee as to the head, and thou shalt lie in wait for him as to the heel. To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days. And Jehovah will lament that he made man in the earth, and he will be grieved at his heart And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

And Jehovah will come down to see the city, and the tower which the sons of men built And Jehovah will say, Behold, the people one, and one lip to them all; and this they begin to do: and now it will not be restrained from them all which they shall imagine to do. Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor.

And Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, sulphur and fire from Jehovah out of the heavens.

And say to him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to thee, saying, Send forth my people, and they shall serve me in the desert: and behold, thou didst not hear until now. Thus said Jehovah, In this thou shalt know that I am Jehovah: Behold me smiting with the rod which is in my hand upon the waters that in the river, and they were turned into blood.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Yet one blow will I bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; after this he will send you forth from here; when his sending forth to go, driving, he will drive you out from here.

And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.

And Jehovah will smite the people for their making the calf which Aaron made.

And these things were our types, that we be not eagerly desirous of evil things, as they also eagerly desired. Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as has been written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither should we commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.read more.
Neither should we tempt Christ, as also some of them tempted, and were destroyed by serpents. Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

And the land shall be defiled: and I will strike iniquity upon it, and the land shall vomit forth its inhabitants.

Thou shalt not say in thy heart in Jehovah thy God's thrusting them out from before thee, saying, For my justice Jehovah brought me forth to possess this land; and for the injustice of these nations Jehovah dispossessed them from before thee.

And the land shall not vomit you forth in your defiling it, as it vomited forth the nations which were before you.

Because that thou servedst not Jehovah thy God injoy and in a good heart for the multitude of all things. And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.

Behold, it written before me: I will not be silent, but I requited, and I requited upon their bosom, Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom.

A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah requiting retribution to his enemies.

For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not because thou didst defile my holy place with all thine abominable things, and with all thine abominations, and I will also diminish; and mine eye shall not spare, and also I will not pity. A third of thee in death shall die, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third shall fall by the sword round about thee; and the third I will scatter to every wind, and I will draw out the sword after them. And mine anger was completed, and I caused my wrath to rest upon them, and I was comforted: and they shall know that I Jehovah spake in my zeal in my completing my wrath upon them.

Flee from the midst of Babel and save ye each his soul: ye shall not be destroyed in her iniquity: for it is the time of vengeance to Jehovah; he will do to her a recompense.

So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar. Truly I say to you, All these shall come upon this generation.

For ye, brethren, were imitators of the churches of God being in Judea in Christ Jesus: for ye also suffered the same things by your own race, as they also by the Jews: They also having slain the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and having driven you out; and not pleasing God, and opposite to all men; Hindering us from speaking to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: and the wrath of God has come before upon them even to the end.

And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.

And if Jehovah shall create a creation, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and all which is to them, and they went down living to hades; and ye know that these men rejected Jehovah,

And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against Uzzah, and God will strike him there for the error, and he will die there with the ark of God.

And now the sword shall not depart from thy house even to forever; because that thou didst despise me, and thou wilt take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for wife.

For this, thus said Jehovah God of Israel, against the shepherds feeding my people: Ye scattered my flock and ye will thrust them away, and ye reviewed them not: behold me reviewing over you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah.

And Peter said, Ananias, wherefore filled Satan thy heart, for thee to belie the Holy Spirit, and separate from the price of the farm Remaining, did it not remain to thee? and sold, it was in thy power: for what hast thou put this thing in thy heart? thou hast not lied to men, but to God. And Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, he expired: and great fear was upon all them hearing these things.

For he eating and drinking unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this many among you weak and sick, and enough are asleep.

And lord Bezek will say, Seventy kings with the thumbs of their hands and their feet being cut off, were gathering under my table; as I did so God requited me. And they will bring him to Jerusalem, and he will die there.

And God will turn back the evil of Abimelech which he did. to his father for killing his seventy brethren. And all the evil of the men of Shechem God turned back upon their head: and against them will come the curse of Jotham the son of JerubbaaL

And they will take Absalom and cast him in the forest into a great pit, and they will set upon him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled each to his tent.

And smite thou the house of Ahab thy lord, and I avenged the bloods of my servants the prophets, and the bloods of all the servants of Jehovah from the hand of Jezebel

Likewise also males, leaving the natural use of the female, were set on fire in their longing for one another; males with males working deformity, and the retribution which was needed receiving in themselves for their erring.

And evil men and impostors shall proceed to worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

And Joshua will say, Why didst thou trouble us? Jehovah will trouble thee in this day, and all Israel will stone him with stone, and they will burn them in fire, and they will stone them with stones.

And the king will say to him, Do as he said, and strike upon him, and bury him; and take away the bloods which Joab shed gratuitously, from me and from my father's house. And Jehovah turned back his blood upon his head, who struck upon two just men and good above him, and he will kill them with the sword, and my father David knew not, Abner son of Ner, chief of the army of Israel, and Amasa, son of Jether, chief of the army of Judah.