For the day of vengeance [is] in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Ver. 4. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart.] Or, Was in mine heart. Hence I made such havoc. Christ is the "Lord God of recompenses," Jer 51:56 and the "Lord God of revenges"; Psa 94:1 he is "jealous and furious," Nahum 1:2 ; see the note there his feet, wherewith he treadeth down his enemies, are "like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." Rev 1:15 Oh, "it is a fearful thing to fall into the punishing hands of this living God." Heb 10:31
And the year of my redeemed is come.] Their joyful jubilee. It is hail with the saints when ill with the wicked. The deliverance of those is oft the destruction of these.