23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. …
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. …
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-25)The method of this song follows the method of the predictions in the foregoing chapter, and therefore, after the revolt of Israel from God, described in the Deut. 32:15 , 16 , here follow immediately the resolves of divine Justice concerning them; we deceive ourselves if we think that God will be thus mocked by a foolish faithless people, that play fast and loose with him. I. He had delighted in t…
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