Deuteronomy 32:41

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

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  • Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
  • Ps 7:12 : 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 ¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 According to [their] deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
  • Isa 66:6 : 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD 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 to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
  • Jer 50:29 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it 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 the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, [as] every tree. 11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. 12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon [thy] thigh. 13 Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn even the rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD. 14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. 15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that [their] heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied: ah! [it is] made bright, [it is] wrapped up for the slaughter.
  • Ezek 21:20 : 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
  • Zeph 2:12 : 12 ¶ Ye Ethiopians also, ye [shall be] slain by my sword.
  • Mark 1:2 : 2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 85%

    42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

    43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.

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

  • 77%

    34 [Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?

    35 To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

    4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

  • 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

  • 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

  • 41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • 5 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.

  • 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people;

  • 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

  • 24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

  • 48 It [is] God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me,

  • 75%

    12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

    13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

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    30 Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

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

  • 17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

  • 15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

  • 47 [It is] God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

  • 38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

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

  • 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

  • 20 [Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

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

  • 14 And 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 fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 10 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

  • 21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

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

  • 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • 4 And 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.

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

  • Ezek 21:3-4
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    3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

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

  • 37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

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

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

  • 9 He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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

  • 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, [and] seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

  • 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

  • 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

  • 7 ¶ Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

  • 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

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

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