Isaiah 59:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.”
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“So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.”
King James Version · Public Domain“According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“According to deeds--so He repayeth. Fury to His adversaries, <FI>their<Fi> deed to His enemies, To the isles <FI>their<Fi> deed He repayeth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 59:18 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:41when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.
- Job 34:11For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
- Psalms 18:24So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
- Psalms 21:8Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
- Psalms 62:12and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
- Isaiah 1:24Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.
- Isaiah 49:25Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant will be retrieved; I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.
- Isaiah 63:3“I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
- Isaiah 63:6I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”
- Isaiah 66:14When you see, you will rejoice, and you will flourish like grass; then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants, but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.
- Isaiah 66:15For behold, the LORD will come with fire— His chariots are like a whirlwind— to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
- Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jeremiah 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
- Jeremiah 50:15Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
- Jeremiah 50:29Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
- Lamentations 4:11The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
- Ezekiel 5:13And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
- Ezekiel 6:12He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them.
- Ezekiel 38:18Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.
- Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
- Matthew 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
- Luke 19:27And these enemies of mine who were unwilling for me to rule over them, bring them here and slay them in front of me.’”
- Luke 21:22For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
- Romans 2:6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
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