Strong's G1349 δίκη (dike)

And if a man smite his manservant or his maidservant, with a rod, and the party die under his hands, he shall be surely punished.

And I will bring upon you a sword avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

For I will sharpen my sword like lightning, And my hand shall take hold of judgment; And I will render judgment to my enemies, And will recompense them that hate me.

Rejoice, ye heavens, with him, And let all the angels of God worship him; Rejoice ye Gentiles, with his people, And let all the sons of God strengthen themselves in him; For he will avenge the blood of his sons, And he will render vengeance, and recompense justice to his enemies, And will reward them that hate him; And the Lord shall purge the land of his people.

I was the father of the helpless; And I searched out the cause which I knew not.

But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

For thou hast maintained my cause and my right; Thou satest on the throne, that judgest righteousness.

Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, Even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: Deliver me from the unjust and crafty man.

Arise, O God, plead thy cause: Remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the poor, And the right of the needy ones.

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.

Thus saith the Lord; Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;

I will deliver them out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is thy penalty, O death? O Hades, where is thy sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes.

Noises have resounded in the valley of judgment: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment.

Thus has the Lord shown me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord’s portion.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he make good my cause: he also shall maintain my right, and shall bring me out to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.

And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Jews, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from the Almighty God.

they that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of God, fled, and conveyed themselves away.

Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that King Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;

At which Divine vengeance being grieved, instigated Antiochus himself against them.

Be merciful to thy people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.

Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power.

Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?

But thou, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, shalt, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.

O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruelhearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom thou thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.

But thou art tortured with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.

But I have come of my own accord, that by the death of me, you may owe heavenly vengeance a punishment for more crimes.

Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving thee for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to thee for all time.

Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.

Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hidden: Neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him.

Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, Being persecuted of vengeance, And scattered abroad through the breath of thy power: But thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight.

For they went astray very far in the ways of error, And held them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were despised, Being deceived, as children of no understanding.

For it is not the power of them by whom they swear: But it is the just vengeance of sinners, That punisheth always the offense of the ungodly.

The master and the servant were punished after one manner; And like as the king, so suffered the common person.