8For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
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For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
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.
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here we have a prophecy, as elsewhere we have a history, of the wars of the Lord, which we are sure are all both righteous and successful. This world, as it is his creature, he does good to; but as it is in the interest of Satan, who is called the god of this world , he fights against it. I. Here is the trumpet sounded and the war proclaimed, Isa. 34:1. All nations must hear and hearken, not only…
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