41If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. …
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 39-43)This conclusion of the song speaks three things: I. Glory to God, Deut. 32:39. “See now upon the whole matter, that I, even I, am he . Learn this from the destruction of idolaters, and the inability of their idols to help them.” The great God here demands the glory, 1. Of a self-existence: I, even I, am he . Thus Moses concludes with that name of God by which he was first made to know him (Exod. 3…
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