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.
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.’
Do not say, ‘I recompense evil,’ Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.
Say not, ‘As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.’
and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night — bearing long in regard to them?
I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?’
giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men.
If possible — so far as in you — with all men being in peace;
not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, ‘Vengeance [is] Mine,
for we have known Him who is saying, ‘Vengeance [is] Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;’ and again, ‘The Lord shall judge His people;’ —