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Deuteronomy 32:33 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps. "
Deuteronomy 32:33
Verse in Context
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31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
34 “Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
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Deuteronomy 32:1
"Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth."
Deuteronomy 32:2
"My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb."
Deuteronomy 32:3
"For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!"
Deuteronomy 32:4
"The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he."
Deuteronomy 32:5
"They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation."
Deuteronomy 32:6
"Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you."
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