Deuteronomy 32:41
if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, As I live forever,
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Deuteronomy 7:10and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Psalms 7:12If a man does not repent, he will whet his sword. He has bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalms 149:9to execute upon them the judgment written. All his sanctified have this honor. Praise ye LORD.
Isaiah 27:1In that day LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and he will kill the monster that is in the sea.
Isaiah 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies. He will repay recompense to the islands.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:40-44
39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the… Read the whole commentary →