Never choose revenge as a defense. Your barrage of words in your own defense will escalate with every expression. Words are easy to pick up, yet hard to put down. Pick not words from the wisdom of man and carnality, for they are snares used by your enemy to bind you up. Listen to the voice of the spirit and not to the voice of revenge.
Revenge is bitter.
It is never sweet. Though the taste of revenge taste sweet to raging emotions, it is bitter to the belly and your future. Taste it not, lest you develop a taste you cannot control. Many have allowed themselves to be exiled in the corners of their own kingdoms subjugated and enslaved by their own actions of self-justification and revenge. Remember that there is no earthly heritage worth preserving at the expense of your spiritual inheritance.