42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother. …
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
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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