Isaiah 63:4

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For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 34:8 : 8 For the LORD has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.
  • Isa 35:4 : 4 Tell those who panic,“Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your God comes to avenge! With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.”
  • Isa 61:2 : 2 to announce the year when the LORD will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,
  • Jer 51:6 : 6 Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. Flee to save your lives. Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins. For it is time for the LORD to wreak his revenge. He will pay Babylonia back for what she has done.
  • Zech 3:8 : 8 Listen now, Joshua the high priest, both you and your colleagues who are sitting before you, all of you are a symbol that I am about to introduce my servant, the Branch.
  • Luke 21:22 : 22 because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
  • Rev 6:9-9 : 9 Now when the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been violently killed because of the word of God and because of the testimony they had given. 10 They cried out with a loud voice,“How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?” 11 Each of them was given a long white robe and they were told to rest for a little longer, until the full number was reached of both their fellow servants and their brothers who were going to be killed just as they had been. 12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind. 14 The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks,“Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
  • Rev 11:13 : 13 Just then a major earthquake took place and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
  • Rev 18:20 : 20 (Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 63:1-3
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    1The Victorious Divine Warrior Who is this who comes from Edom, dressed in bright red, coming from Bozrah? Who is this one wearing royal attire, who marches confidently because of his great strength?“It is I, the one who announces vindication, and who is able to deliver!”

    2Why are your clothes red? Why do you look like someone who has stomped on grapes in a vat?

    3“I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself; no one from the nations joined me. I stomped on them in my anger; I trampled them down in my rage. Their juice splashed on my garments, and stained all my clothes.

  • Isa 34:8
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    8For the LORD has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

  • Isa 63:5-6
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    5I looked, but there was no one to help; I was shocked because there was no one offering support. So my right arm accomplished deliverance; my raging anger drove me on.

    6I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”

  • Deut 32:35
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    35I will get revenge and pay them back at the time their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and the impending judgment is rushing upon them!”

  • Isa 61:1-2
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    1The Lord Will Rejuvenate His People The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

    2to announce the year when the LORD will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,

  • Jer 46:10
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    10But that day belongs to the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies. It is a day of reckoning, when he will pay back his adversaries. His sword will devour them until its appetite is satisfied! It will drink its fill from their blood! Indeed it will be a sacrifice for the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies in the land of the north by the Euphrates River.

  • Isa 1:24
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    24Therefore, the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the Powerful One of Israel, says this:“Ah, I will seek vengeance against my adversaries, I will take revenge against my enemies.

  • Ezek 25:14
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    14I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience my vengeance, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Isa 59:17
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    17He wears his desire for justice like body armor, and his desire to deliver is like a helmet on his head. He puts on the garments of vengeance and wears zeal like a robe.

  • Mic 5:15
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    15With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”

  • Isa 51:5
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    5I am ready to vindicate, I am ready to deliver, I will establish justice among the nations. The coastlands wait patiently for me; they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.

  • Isa 59:20
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    20“A protector comes to Zion, to those in Jacob who repent of their rebellious deeds,” says the LORD.

  • Deut 32:41-43
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    41I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

    42I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh– the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”

    43Cry out, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge his servants’ blood; he will take vengeance against his enemies, and make atonement for his land and people.

  • Ps 149:7
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    7in order to take revenge on the nations, and punish foreigners.

  • Isa 34:5
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    5He says,“Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”

  • 2 Sam 22:48
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    48The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.

  • Jer 11:20
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    20So I said,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you are a just judge! You examine people’s hearts and minds. I want to see you pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.”

  • Ps 18:47
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    47The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.

  • Ezek 22:31
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    31So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Zeph 3:8
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    8Therefore you must wait patiently for me,” says the LORD,“for the day when I attack and take plunder. I have decided to gather nations together and assemble kingdoms, so I can pour out my fury on them– all my raging anger. For the whole earth will be consumed by my fiery anger.

  • Jer 20:12
    70%

    12O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.

  • Isa 26:21
    70%

    21For look, the LORD is coming out of the place where he lives, to punish the sin of those who live on the earth. The earth will display the blood shed on it; it will no longer cover up its slain.

  • Isa 35:4
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    4Tell those who panic,“Be strong! Do not fear! Look, your God comes to avenge! With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.”

  • Isa 56:1
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    1The Lord Invites Outsiders to Enter This is what the LORD says,“Promote justice! Do what is right! For I am ready to deliver you; I am ready to vindicate you openly.

  • Ps 58:10
    69%

    10The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

  • Isa 65:6
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    6Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,

  • Ezek 25:17
    69%

    17I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”

  • Jer 50:28
    69%

    28Listen! Fugitives and refugees are coming from the land of Babylon. They are coming to Zion to declare there how the LORD our God is getting revenge, getting revenge for what they have done to his temple.

  • Ps 71:23
    69%

    23My lips will shout for joy! Yes, I will sing your praises! I will praise you when you rescue me!

  • Isa 54:8
    69%

    8In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the LORD.

  • Mic 7:9
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    9I must endure the LORD’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.

  • Luke 21:22
    69%

    22because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

  • Isa 13:3
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    3I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.

  • Isa 49:8
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    8This is what the LORD says:“At the time I decide to show my favor, I will respond to you; in the day of deliverance I will help you; I will protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, to rebuild the land and to reassign the desolate property.

  • Ezek 5:13
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    13Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. Then they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my jealousy when I have fully vented my rage against them.

  • Ps 107:2
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    2Let those delivered by the LORD speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy,

  • Ezek 9:10
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    10But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

  • Lam 2:22
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    22ת(Tav) As if it were a feast day, you call enemies to terrify me on every side. On the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has finished off those healthy infants whom I bore and raised.

  • Ps 94:1
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    1O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!

  • Isa 66:15
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    15For look, the LORD comes with fire, his chariots come like a windstorm, to reveal his raging anger, his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.

  • Jer 44:6
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    6So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.’

  • Isa 61:10
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    10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; I will be overjoyed because of my God. For he clothes me in garments of deliverance; he puts on me a robe symbolizing vindication. I look like a bridegroom when he wears a turban as a priest would; I look like a bride when she puts on her jewelry.

  • Isa 44:22
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    22I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud, the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud. Come back to me, for I protect you.”

  • Isa 46:13
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    13I am bringing my deliverance near, it is not far away; I am bringing my salvation near, it does not wait. I will save Zion; I will adorn Israel with my splendor.”