Deuteronomy 32:41

KJV1611 – Modern English

If I sharpen my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward those who 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 does not turn back, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the LORD with His cruel and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that twisted 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 Edom, 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 has 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, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay recompense.
  • Isa 66:6 : 6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD rendering recompense to his enemies.
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies:
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 To me belong vengeance, and recompense; their foot shall slip 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 you that bend the bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape: repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished: 10 It is sharpened to make a great slaughter; it is polished that it may glitter: should we then rejoice? it despises the rod of my son, as every tree. 11 And he has given it to be polished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, 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 of the sword shall be upon my people: strike therefore upon your thigh. 13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword despises even the rod? it shall be no more, says the Lord GOD. 14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your 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 enters into their private 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 fortified.
  • Zeph 2:12 : 12 You Ethiopians also, you shall be slain by my sword.
  • Mark 1:2 : 2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, 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, nor indeed can be.
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 Traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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