Deuteronomy 32:41
if I whet my glittering sword,My hand take hold on judgment;I will render vengeance to my adversaries,and will recompense those who hate me.
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40For I lift up my hand to heaven,And say, As I live forever,
Cross References
Exodus 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on 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 doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword;he has bent and strung his bow.
Psalms 149:9to execute on them the written judgment.All his holy ones have this honor.Praise Yah!
Isaiah 27:1In that day, the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 59:18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath 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 →