wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; so that men shall say,
Verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily there is a God
that judgeth in the earth. Psalms 58;10.

And I [God] will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the
nations which hearkened not. Micah 5;15.

All things are cleansed with blood, and apart from the shedding of
blood there is no remission. Hebrews 9;22.

For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me. ... It is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews
10;30.

True it is often claimed that Jesus repudiated the doctrine of
vengeance. The passage of 5th Matthew, 38-30 is often quoted in proof of
this assertion--"Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an
eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, that ye resist not
evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the
other also." But the gospels and the other books of the New Testament
show plainly that non-resistance was not laid down as a rule for the
guidance of mankind, but only as a policy by one sect of the Jews and
Christians to save themselves from the Romans. The reason for the
doctrine was the belief that resistance was hopeless, and that God who
had the power would in his own time visit on the oppressors the
vengeance that the Jews and Christians were too weak to inflict. Jesus
and the early Christians knew of no people beyond their immediate
territory, and they did not appeal to mankind as a whole, or to future
generations.