Deuteronomy 32:41
If I whet My glittering sword, and My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to Mine adversaries, and will recompense them that hate Me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
40For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say: As I live for ever,
Cross References
Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;
Deuteronomy 7:10and repayeth them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them; He will not be slack to him that hateth Him, He will repay him to his face.
Psalms 7:12(7-13) If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;
Psalms 149:9To execute upon them the judgment written; He is the glory of all His saints. Hallelujah.
Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD with His sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies; to the islands He will repay recompense.
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 →