Lexicon :: Strong's G1557 - ekdikēsis

“I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I am the LORD; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.

“Execute vengeance for the Israelites against the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”

Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying every firstborn male the LORD had struck down among them, for the LORD had executed judgment against their gods.

“Vengeance and retribution belong to me.[fn]

In time their foot will slip,

for their day of disaster is near,

and their doom is coming quickly.”

Then she said to him, “My father, you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD brought vengeance on your enemies, the Ammonites.”

Then Samson told them, “Because you did this, I swear that I won’t rest until I have taken vengeance on you.”

He called out to the LORD, “Lord GOD, please remember me. Strengthen me, God, just once more. With one act of vengeance, let me pay back the Philistines for my two eyes.”

They brought Ish-bosheth’s head to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here’s the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who intended to take your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

God ​— ​he grants me vengeance

and casts down peoples under me.

God ​— ​he grants me vengeance

and subdues peoples under me.

The righteous one will rejoice

when he sees the retribution;

he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Why should the nations ask,

“Where is their God? ”

Before our eyes,

let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants

be known among the nations.

LORD, God of vengeance —

God of vengeance, shine!

inflicting vengeance on the nations

and punishment on the peoples,

He put on righteousness as body armor,

and a helmet of salvation on his head;

he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,

and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.

Look, the LORD will come with fire —

his chariots are like the whirlwind —

to execute his anger with fury

and his rebuke with flames of fire.

But, LORD of Armies, who judges righteously,

who tests heart[fn] and mind,

let me see your vengeance on them,

for I have presented my case to you.

For I have heard the gossip of many people,

“Terror is on every side!

Report him; let’s report him! ”

Everyone I trusted[fn] watches for my fall.

“Perhaps he will be deceived

so that we might prevail against him

and take our vengeance on him.”

LORD of Armies, testing the righteous

and seeing the heart[fn] and mind,

let me see your vengeance on them,

for I have presented my case to you.

That day belongs to the Lord, the GOD of Armies,

a day of vengeance to avenge himself

against his adversaries.

The sword will devour and be satisfied;

it will drink its fill of their blood,

because it will be a sacrifice to the Lord, the GOD of Armies,

in the northern land by the Euphrates River.

Even her mercenaries among her

are like stall-fed calves.

They too will turn back;

together they will flee;

they will not take their stand,

for the day of their calamity is coming on them,

the time of their punishment.

Raise a war cry against her on every side!

She has thrown up her hands in surrender;

her defense towers have fallen;

her walls are demolished.

Since this is the LORD’s vengeance,

take your vengeance on her;

as she has done, do the same to her.

Put all her young bulls to the sword;

let them go down to the slaughter.

Woe to them because their day has come,

the time of their punishment.

Look, I am against you, you arrogant one —

this is the declaration of

the Lord GOD of Armies —

for your day has come,

the time when I will punish you.

Leave Babylon;

save your lives, each of you!

Don’t perish because of her guilt.

For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance —

he will pay her what she deserves.

Sharpen the arrows!

Fill the quivers![fn]

The LORD has roused the spirit

of the kings of the Medes

because his plan is aimed at Babylon

to destroy her,

for it is the LORD’s vengeance,

vengeance for his temple.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

I am about to champion your cause

and take vengeance on your behalf;

I will dry up her sea

and make her fountain run dry.

You saw all their vengefulness,

all their plots against me.

“So you[fn] will be a disgrace and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and furious rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Then he called loudly in my hearing, “Come near, executioners of the city, each of you with a destructive weapon in his hand.”

“For this is what the Lord GOD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four devastating judgments against Jerusalem ​— ​sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague ​— ​in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!

“I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged. Then I will bring about the shedding of your blood in jealous wrath.

“They will burn your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute, and you will never again pay fees for lovers.

“Will you pass judgment against them, will you pass judgment, son of man? Explain the detestable practices of their ancestors to them.

“They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.

“But righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged, for they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

“In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance,

I have put her blood on the bare rock,

so that it would not be covered.

So I will execute judgments against Moab, and they will know that I am the LORD.

“I will take my vengeance on Edom through my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to my anger and wrath. So they will know my vengeance. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

“I will execute severe vengeance against them with furious rebukes. They will know that I am the LORD when I take my vengeance on them.’ ”

“I will make Pathros desolate,

set fire to Zoan,

and execute judgments on Thebes.

The days of punishment have come;

the days of retribution have come.

Let Israel recognize it!

The prophet is a fool,

and the inspired man is insane,

because of the magnitude

of your iniquity and hostility.

I will take vengeance in anger and wrath

against the nations that have not obeyed me.

The best of them is like a brier;

the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.

The day of your watchmen,

the day of your punishment, is coming;

at this time their panic is here.