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Isaiah 34:8

For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

KJV

Quia dies ultionis Domini, annus retributionum judicii Sion.

Vulgate

ἡμέρα γὰρ κρίσεως Κυρίου, καὶ ἐνιαυτὸς ἀνταποδόσεως κρίσεως Σειών.

LXX

For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

ASV

כִּ֛י י֥וֹם נָקָ֖ם לַֽ/יהוָ֑ה שְׁנַ֥ת שִׁלּוּמִ֖ים לְ/רִ֥יב צִיּֽוֹן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
נָקָם֙
nqm
noun · 17×
צִיּ֔וֹן
tsyvn
proper_noun · 147×
רִ֥יב
ryb
noun · 61×
שִׁלֻּ֔ם
shlm
noun · 3×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 2:20 — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
  • Deut 32:35 — To 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.
  • Isa 9:18 — For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
  • Isa 13:6 — Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
  • Isa 35:4 — Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
  • Isa 35:4 — Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
  • Isa 61:2 — To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  • Isa 61:2 — To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
  • Isa 63:4 — For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
  • Isa 63:4 — For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
  • Jer 25:31 — A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 46:10 — For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for th
  • Joel 3:4 — Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upo
  • Luke 21:22 — For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
  • Ps 94:1 — O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
  • Rev 6:10 — And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
  • Rev 18:20 — Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
  • Rev 19:2 — For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.