Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people therein.

And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their stench shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

My sword has been made drunk in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.

And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

And He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and placed the helmet of salvation on His head; and He clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with His cloak,

as one about to render a recompense, [even] reproach to His adversaries.

For the day of recompense has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.

And I trampled them in My anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

In the day of vengeance I will recompense, whenever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction [is] near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.

For I will sharpen My sword like lightning, and My hand shall take hold of judgment; and I will render judgment to My enemies, and will recompense them that hate Me.

Rejoice, you heavens, with Him, and let all the angels of God worship Him; rejoice you Gentiles, with His people, and let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in Him; for He shall avenge the blood of His sons, and He shall render vengeance, and recompense justice to His enemies, and will reward them that hate Him; and the Lord shall purge the land of His people.

A Psalm of David for the fourth [day] of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared Himself.

Be exalted, You that judge the earth; render a reward to the proud.

Wretched daughter of Babylon! Blessed [shall he be] who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.

Blessed [shall he be] who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.

And if you should say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been discovered, that your heels might be exposed.

I also will expose your skirts upon your face, and your shame shall be seen;

Dry up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, and the time of their retribution.

A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Zion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.

And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [men] pierced through shall fall without it.

Prepare the arrows; fill the quivers. The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His wrath is against Babylon, to destroy it utterly; for it is the Lord's vengeance, it is the vengeance of His people.

You scatter for Me the weapons of war, and I will scatter nations by you, and will destroy kings by means of you.

And by you I will scatter youth and maid; and by you I will scatter man and woman.

And I will recompense to Babylon and to all the Chaldeans that dwell [there] all the evil that they have done to Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will judge your adversary, and I will execute vengeance for you; and I will waste her sea, and dry up her fountain.

Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The LORD will judge His people."

It is a fearful [thing] to fall into the hands of the living God!

Behold, I am against you, says the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover your skirts in your presence, and I will show the nations your shame, and the kingdoms your disgrace.

And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.

And they cried [with] a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"

Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the rage of His wrath.

Because her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

In as many things as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give to her torment and sorrow; because she says in her heart, 'I sit as queen, and am not a widow, and I shall by no means see sorrow.'