Deuteronomy 32:41-43

Common English Bible

⁴¹        when I sharpen my blazing sword
            and my hand grabs hold of justice,
    I’ll pay my enemies back;
    I’ll punish in kind everyone who hates me.
⁴²I’ll make my arrows drink much blood,
    while my sword devours flesh,
    the blood of the dead and captured,
        flowing from the heads of enemy generals.”^[a]
⁴³Heavens:^[b] Rejoice with God!^[c]
    All you gods: bow down to the Lord!^[d]
    Because he will avenge his children’s^[e] blood;
        he will pay back his enemies;
        he will punish in kind those who hate him;^[f]
        he will cleanse his people’s land.^[g]

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 32:42 Heb uncertain
Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeut^q), LXX; MT nations
Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeut^q), LXX; MT his people
Deuteronomy 32:43 This line is missing in Heb; it is found in DSS (4QDeut^q); LXX him for the Lord.
Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeut^q), LXX; MT his servants’
Deuteronomy 32:43 DSS (4QDeut^q), LXX; MT lacks this line.
Deuteronomy 32:43 Sam, DSS (4QDeut^q), LXX, Vulg; MT his land his people or his land for his people; or, correcting, he will wipe away his people’s tears.