Deuteronomy 32:23

23 '¹I will heap misfortunes on them; ²I will use My arrows on them.

PREVIOUS Deuteronomy 32:22 NEXT Deuteronomy 32:24

Deuteronomy 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap mischief upon them
One calamity upon another, which are after particularly mentioned:

I will spewed mine arrows upon them;
God is here represented as an enemy to the Jews, as having bent his bow against them like an enemy, ( Lamentations 2:4 ) ; and as having a quiver, and that full of arrows, and as determined to draw out and spend everyone of them, in taking vengeance upon them; which arrows are his four sore judgments mentioned ( Ezekiel 14:21 ) ; and expressed in ( Deuteronomy 32:24 Deuteronomy 32:25 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Deuteronomy 32:23 In-Context

21 'They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

22 For a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the lowest part of Sheol, And consumes the earth with its yield, And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23 'I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.

24 'They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

25 'Outside the sword will bereave, And inside terror - Both young man and virgin, The nursling with the man of gray hair.

Cross References 2

1. Deuteronomy 29:21
2. Psalms 18:14; Psalms 45:5

Deuteronomy 32:23

Share

Settings

Deuteronomy 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:23 In-Context

Cross References 2