Psalms 18:47
the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,
BSB
ASV
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.
KJV
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
It is God that avengeth me - Margin, giveth avengements for me. The marginal reading is a literal translation of the Hebrew. The meaning is, that God had punished the enemies of the author of the psalm for all the wrongs which they had done to him. Compare Rom 12:19. And subdueth the people under me - Margin, destroyeth. The idea is that he had subdued the nations so that they became obedient to him.
"It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me." To rejoice in personal revenge is unhallowed and evil, but David viewed himself as the instrument of vengeance upon the enemies of God and his people, and had he not rejoiced in the success accorded to him he would have been worthy of censure. That sinners perish is in itself a painful consideration, but that the Lord's law is avenged upon those who break it is to the devout mind a theme for thankfulness.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Romans 12:19Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
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Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”
Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
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Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
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O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
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Psalms 144:2He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
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He said: “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.