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41     I will make my sword very sharp.
It will move like lightning as I hold it in my hand.
    I will punish my enemies as they deserve.
I will pay back everyone who hates me.
42 My arrows will have blood all over them.
    My sword will cut into the bodies of my enemies.
Everyone that I take hold of will die.
    I will cut off the heads of their leaders.” ’

43 So you people of other nations,
    join with God's people to praise him!
He will punish those who have killed his servants.
    He will punish all his enemies.
But he will forgive the sins of his people,
    and he will make their land clean again.

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41 when I sharpen my flashing sword(A)
    and my hand grasps it in judgment,
I will take vengeance(B) on my adversaries
    and repay those who hate me.(C)
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,(D)
    while my sword devours flesh:(E)
the blood of the slain and the captives,
    the heads of the enemy leaders.”

43 Rejoice,(F) you nations, with his people,[a][b]
    for he will avenge the blood of his servants;(G)
he will take vengeance on his enemies(H)
    and make atonement for his land and people.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:43 Or Make his people rejoice, you nations
  2. Deuteronomy 32:43 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) people, / and let all the angels worship him, /