Deuteronomy 32:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

I feared. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia (App-6).

behave themselves strangely. mistake it. Hebrew. naka r,. Homonym with three meanings: (1) to mistake, Deuteronomy 32:27. (2) to acknowledge, Job 34:19. (3) to deliver. 1 Samuel 23:7. Both Authorized Version and Revised Version miss the first (Revised Version. misdeem), admit the second and third (though the Revised Version margin suggests "alienated" for "delivered").

the LORD. Jehovah. Note the five Divine Titles in this song. App-4.

Deuteronomy 32:27

27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.