For those will be days of God’s vengeance, and the prophetic words of the Scriptures will be fulfilled.
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- 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.
- BSB For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
- 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.
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These are days of vengeance, fulfilling what Scripture had foretold.
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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.
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Cross-references · 22
- Hos 9:7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
- Isa 65:12–16I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
- Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
- 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
- Jer 51:6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
- Isa 34:8For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
- Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
- Mark 13:19–20For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
- 2 Pet 3:7But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Deut 32:43Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
- Rom 2:5But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
- Zech 11:1–3Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
- Isa 61:2to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;
- Matt 1:22Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Ps 149:7–9To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
- Deut 29:19–28and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”
- Deut 32:34“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
- Lev 26:14–33“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Zech 14:1–2Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you.
- Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
- Ps 69:22–28Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
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