Sirach 28:1
Good News Translation
The Lord is taking note of your sins, and if you take vengeance on someone, the Lord will take vengeance on you.

New Revised Standard Version
The vengeful will face the Lord’s vengeance, for he keeps a strict account of their sins.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord keeps a record of those who take revenge and he will punish them for their sins.

New American Bible
The vengeful will face the Lord’s vengeance; indeed he remembers their sins in detail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance.

Sirach 27:32
They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.

Sirach 27:33
Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them.

Sirach 28:2
Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest.

Sirach 28:3
Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God?

Context
Sirach 28
1He that seeketh to revenge himself, shall find vengeance from the Lord, and he will surely keep his sins in remembrance. 2Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest.…
Cross References
Sirach 27:32
They shall perish in a snare that are delighted with the fall of the just: and sorrow shall consume them before they die.

Sirach 27:33
Anger and fury are both of them abominable, and the sinful man shall be subject to them.

Sirach 28:2
Forgive thy neighbour if he hath hurt thee: and then shall thy sins be forgiven to thee when thou prayest.

Sirach 28:3
Man to man reserveth anger, and doth he seek remedy of God?



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Sirach 27:33
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