Dictionary / Vocabulary / 天罰覿面
てんばつてきめん
the certainty of divine punishment; Swift is Heaven's vengeance
Also written 天罰てきめん
天網恢恢疎にして漏らさずの言葉通り、天罰覿面だ。
They say fate will catch up with you. That was God's way of punishing him.
この辺の意地悪婆さんが雷に打たれて頓死したらしい。まさに天罰覿面だとうちの母さんが言う。
It seems the mean old woman that lived around here was struck by lightning and suddenly died. My mother says it's truly a case of the swiftness of Heaven's vengeance.