Deuteronomy 32:35 — Meaning and Application

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“To me {belongeth} vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in {due} time: for the day of their calamity {is} at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.”

Deuteronomy 32:35

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Their wine {is} the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

{Is} not this laid up in store with me, {and} sealed up among my treasures?

To me {belongeth} vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in {due} time: for the day of their calamity {is} at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that {their} power is gone, and {there is} none shut up, or left. {power: Heb. hand}

And he shall say, Where {are} their gods, {their} rock in whom they trusted,

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Deuteronomy 32:1

"Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth."

Deuteronomy 32:2

"My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:"

Deuteronomy 32:3

"Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God."

Deuteronomy 32:4

"{He is} the Rock, his work {is} perfect: for all his ways {are} judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right {is} he."

Deuteronomy 32:5

"They have corrupted themselves, their spot {is} not {the spot} of his children: {they are} a perverse and crooked generation. {They have...: Heb. He hath corrupted to himself} {their...: or, that they are not his children, that is their blot}"

Deuteronomy 32:6

"Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? {is} not he thy father {that} hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?"

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