And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.
Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
And about ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’
For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.
O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,
“Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?
May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”
Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com.