Deuteronomy 32:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

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.

Ver. 35. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense.] The Hebrew word for vengeance, זהם, signifies comfort also; for God will be comforted in the execution of his wrath. Eze 5:13 See Trapp on " Deu 28:63 " He shows such severity sometimes as if he had blotted that out of his title, Exo 34:6 and now took up that Emperor's motto, Fiat iustitia, pereat mundus.

Their foot shall slide in due time.] "They are set in slippery places"; Psa 73:18 they ever walk as upon a mine of gunpowder ready to be blown up: Nemo crimen gerit in pectore, qui non idem Nemesin in tergo. Nemesis dicitur Aδραστεια, quod ουκ αν τις αυτην αποδρασαιτο. God's wrath is such, as none can avert or avoid.

Deuteronomy 32:35

35 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.