23 Afterwards he will rise up and repay them, and give their repayment upon their head. (WEB)
Sirach 17:23
Semantically similar passages
Isaiah 59:17–19
17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal. 18 So He will repay according to their deeds: fury to His enemies, retribution to His foes, and recompense…
Judith 7:14–16
14 They will be consumed with famine—they, their wives, and their children. Before the sword comes against them they will be laid low in the streets where they dwell. (WEB) 15 And you will pay them back with evil, because they rebelled, and didn’t meet your face in peace.” (WEB)
Lamentations 3:63–65
63 When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song. 64 You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 65 Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
2 Esdras 12:32–34
32 this is the anointed one, whom the Most High has kept to the end [of days, who will spring up out of the seed of David, and he will come and speak] to them and reprove them for their wickedness and unrighteousness, and willheap up before them their contemptuo… (WEB)
Joel 3:6–8
6 You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland. 7 Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads. 8 I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands o…
2 Esdras 15:20–22
20 “Behold,” says God, “I call together all the kings of the earth to stir up those who are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus, to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them. (WEB) 21 Just as t… (WEB)
Isaiah 65:5–7
5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long. 6 Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps, 7 bot…
Ezekiel 25:16–17
16 therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast. 17 I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will k…
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources