Isaiah 59:17

God arms Himself with righteousness, salvation, vengeance, and zeal like a warrior. He comes equipped to judge evil and deliver His people.

Cross-references · 19

• Eph 6:17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
• 1 Th 5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Rom 13:12–14The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• Isa 11:5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• Heb 10:30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
• Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
• Isa 51:9Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
• John 2:17And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
• Rev 19:11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
• Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
• Ps 69:9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
• Deut 32:35–43To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
• 2 Cor 6:7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
• Zech 1:14So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
• 2 Th 1:8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Isa 63:3I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
• Ps 94:1O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

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