Deuteronomy 32:41

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!

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  • Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire and by His sword, Doth Jehovah do judgment with all flesh. And many have been Jehovah's pierced ones.'
  • Ps 7:12 : 12 If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that `is' in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment. 6 A sword `is' to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice `is' to Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  • Isa 59:18 : 18 According to deeds -- so He repayeth. Fury to His adversaries, `their' deed to His enemies, To the isles `their' deed He repayeth.
  • Isa 66:6 : 6 A voice of noise `is' from the city, a voice from the temple, The voice of Jehovah, giving recompence to His enemies.
  • Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third `generation', and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 thou dost not bow thyself to them nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God `am' a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on a third `generation', and on a fourth, to those hating Me;
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
  • Jer 50:29 : 29 Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let `her' have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did -- do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.
  • Ezek 21:9-9 : 9 `Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished. 10 So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. So as to have brightness it is polished, Desire hath rejoiced the sceptre of my son, It is despising every tree. 11 And he giveth it for polishing, For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened -- the sword -- and polished, To give it into the hand of a slayer. 12 Cry and howl, son of man, For it hath been among My people, It `is' among all the princes of Israel, Cast unto the sword have been My people. Therefore strike on thy thigh, 13 Because `it is' a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. 14 And thou, son of man, prophesy, And smite hand on hand, And bent is the sword a third time, The sword of the wounded! It `is' the sword of the wounded -- the great one, That is entering the inner chamber to them. 15 To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapt up for slaughter.
  • Ezek 21:20 : 20 A way appoint for the coming of the sword, Unto Rabbath of the sons of Ammon, And to Judah, in Jerusalem -- the fenced.
  • Zeph 2:12 : 12 Also ye, O Cushim, pierced of My sword `are' they.
  • Mark 1:2 : 2 As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
  • 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 85%

    42 I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.

    43 Sing ye nations -- `with' his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land -- His people.'

  • 29 If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

  • 77%

    34 Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?

    35 Mine `are' vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.

  • Ps 7:3-4
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    3 O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

    4 If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

  • 23 I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

  • 40 For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age!

  • 41 And mine enemies -- Thou givest to me the neck, Those hating me -- and I cut them off.

  • 5 Turn back doth the evil thing to mine enemies, In Thy truth cut them off.

  • 7 To do vengeance among nations, Punishments among the peoples.

  • 5 For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.

  • 24 Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,

  • 48 God -- who is giving vengeance to me, And bringing down peoples under me,

  • 75%

    12 `Jehovah doth judge between me and thee, and Jehovah hath avenged me of thee, and my hand is not on thee;

    13 as saith the simile of the ancients, From the wicked goeth out wickedness, and my hand is not on thee.

  • 74%

    30 Turn `it' back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.

    31 And I have poured on thee Mine indignation, With fire of My wrath I blow against thee, And have given thee into the hand of brutish men -- artificers of destruction.

  • 17 And done upon them great vengeance with furious reproofs, And they have known that I `am' Jehovah, In My giving out My vengeance on them!

  • 15 And I have done vengeance in anger and in fury, With the nations who have not hearkened!

  • 47 God -- who is giving vengeance to me, And He subdueth peoples under me,

  • 38 I pursue mine enemies and destroy them, And I turn not till they are consumed.

  • 12 If `one' turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,

  • 40 As to mine enemies -- Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me -- I cut them off.

  • 27 If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

  • 20 This `is' the wage of mine accusers from Jehovah, And of those speaking evil against my soul.

  • 24 and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

  • 14 And I have given My vengeance on Edom, By the hand of My people Israel, And they have done in Edom, According to My anger, and according to My fury, And they have known My vengeance, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

  • 10 And Thou, Jehovah, favour me, And cause me to rise, And I give recompence to them.

  • 21 Jehovah recompenseth me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

  • 31 And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

  • 20 And O Jehovah of Hosts, judging righteousness, Trying reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance against them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.'

  • 4 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, From thence I command the sword, And it hath slain them, And I have set Mine eye on them for evil, And not for good.

  • 19 And mine enemies `are' lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.

  • Ezek 21:3-4
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    3 and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked.

    4 Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north.

  • 37 I pursue mine enemies, and overtake them, And turn back not till they are consumed.

  • 9 The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --

  • 10 And I also, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare; their way on their own head I have put.'

  • 9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

  • 11 And he giveth it for polishing, For laying hold of by the hand. It is sharpened -- the sword -- and polished, To give it into the hand of a slayer.

  • 12 And, O Jehovah of Hosts, trier of the righteous, Beholder of reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance out of them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.

  • 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

  • 22 `With' perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.

  • 14 As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

  • 7 As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

  • 23 And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

  • 29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious `are' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that `there is' a judgment.

  • 24 And Jehovah doth return to me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, Over-against his eyes.