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For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
Luke 21:22 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • KJV For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • NKJV For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • NASB because these are days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled.
  • NLT For those will be days of God’s vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.

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These are days of vengeance, fulfilling what Scripture had foretold.

Overview

The fall of Jerusalem is presented as divine judgment in fulfillment of the prophets. It marked the consequences of rejecting God's Messiah and the covenant warnings of old. God's word is sure, and His justice is enacted in history.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Hos 9:7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
  • Isa 65:12–16I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  • Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
  • 2 Pet 2:9if all this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
  • Jer 51:6Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
  • Isa 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
  • Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  • Mark 13:19–20For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again.
  • 2 Pet 3:7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
  • Deut 32:43Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
  • Rom 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Zech 11:1–3Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
  • Isa 61:2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
  • Matt 1:22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
  • Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
  • Ps 149:7–9to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
  • Deut 29:19–28because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  • Deut 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
  • Lev 26:14–33If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
  • Zech 14:1–2Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
  • Deut 28:15–68If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  • Ps 69:22–28May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 21:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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