They intend to come after me with a vengeance.

Winter, it seems, is back with a vengeance.

Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.

Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.