Quotes about Recompense
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Exodus 21:24
burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
- Exodus 21:25
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
- Exodus 22:7
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- Judges 1:7
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
- Isaiah 34:8
Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and His arm establishes His rule. His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him.
- Isaiah 40:10
So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense to the islands.
- Isaiah 59:18
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Isaiah 61:8
Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”
- Isaiah 62:11
You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
- Lamentations 3:64
Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 7:8