100 Bible Verses About Vengeance

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.

And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities.

And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

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

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

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.

The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

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.

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

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.

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

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.

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

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father’s house.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

But Adoni–bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

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.

If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

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

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

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.

I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.

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.

And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

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

And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

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

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;