Deuteronomy 32:41

American Standard Version (1901)

If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

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  • Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
  • Ps 7:12 : 12 If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
  • Isa 66:6 : 6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies.
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
  • Jer 50:29 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against Jehovah, against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished; 10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree. 11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh. 13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah. 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers. 15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
  • Ezek 21:20 : 20 Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
  • Zeph 2:12 : 12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
  • Mark 1:2 : 2 Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 85%

    42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

    43Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

  • 29If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • 77%

    34Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

    35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

  • Ps 7:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

    4If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)

  • 23I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

  • 40For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

  • 41Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.

  • 5He will requite the evil unto mine enemies: Destroy thou them in thy truth.

  • 7To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the peoples;

  • 5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

  • 24Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;

  • 48Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And that bringeth down peoples under me,

  • 75%

    12Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.

    13As saith the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee.

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    30Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.

    31And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.

  • 17And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

  • 15And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened not.

  • 47Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.

  • 38I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

  • 12If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

  • 40Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.

  • 27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

  • 20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.

  • 24and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • 14And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • 10But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.

  • 21Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

  • 31Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • 20But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • 4And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • 19But mine enemies are lively, [and] are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

  • Ezek 21:3-4
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    72%

    3and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

    4Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

  • 37I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.

  • 9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

  • 10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

  • 9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

  • 11And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

  • 12But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • 14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 22I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.

  • 14I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.

  • 7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

  • 23And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him.

  • 29Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

  • 24Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.