Lexicon :: Strong's H5359 - nāqām

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will slip;

For the day of their disaster is at hand,

And their doom hurries to meet them.’

If I sharpen the lightning of My sword,

And My hand takes hold of judgment,

I will render vengeance on My adversaries,

And I will repay those who hate Me.

“Rejoice, O nations, with His people;

For He will avenge the blood of His servants,

And will render vengeance on His adversaries,

And will atone for His land and His people.”

Then Samson called to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this one time, O God, and let me take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

The [unyieldingly] righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance [of God];

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

For jealousy enrages the [wronged] husband;

He will not spare [the guilty one] on the day of vengeance.

For the LORD has a day of vengeance,

A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.

Say to those with an anxious and panic-stricken heart,

“Be strong, fear not!

Indeed, your God will come with vengeance [for the ungodly];

The retribution of God will come,

But He will save you.”

“Your nakedness will be uncovered,

Your shame will also be exposed;

I will take vengeance and will spare no man.”

For He [the LORD] put on righteousness like a coat of armor,

And salvation like a helmet on His head;

He put on garments of vengeance for clothing

And covered Himself with zeal [and great love for His people] as a cloak.

To proclaim [fn]the favorable year of the LORD,

[fn]And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God,

To comfort all who mourn,

“For the day of vengeance [against ungodliness] was in My heart,

And My year of redemption [of those who put their trust in Me—the year of My redeemed] has come.

“That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,

I have put her blood [guilt for her children sacrificed to Molech] on the bare rock,

That it may not be covered.”

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because [fn]Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended and has incurred grievous guilt by taking revenge on them,”

‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because the [fn]Philistines have acted revengefully and have taken vengeance [contemptuously] with malice in their hearts to destroy with everlasting hostility and hatred,”

“And in anger and wrath I shall execute vengeance

On the nations which have not obeyed [such vengeance as they have not known before].”