100 Bible Verses About Retribution

And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath–hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.

And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests.

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth–rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish–tob twelve thousand men.

And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.

When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.

Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.