Deuteronomy 32:42
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| 1 | Moses song, which sets forth God's mercy and vengeance. |
| 46 | He exhorts them to set their hearts upon it. |
| 48 | God sends him up to mount Nebo, to see the land, and to die. |
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Deuteronomy 32:42 (King James Version)
I 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.
- make mine
- 23 ; Psalms 45:5 ; 68:23 Isaiah 34:6-8 ; Jeremiah 16:10 ; Ezekiel 35:6-8 ; Ezekiel 38:21 Ezekiel 38:22
- revenges
- The word {parth,} rendered revenges, a sense in which it never seems to be used, has rendered this passage very obscure. As the word {paira} signifies the hair of the head, both in Hebrew and Arabic, Mr. Parkhurst and others render {mairosh parth,} "from the hairy head;" but to have this
- sense, the words should rather have been {mipparth rosh,} according the Hebrew idiom. The word {faru,} in Arabic, however, also denotes a prince or chief; and the words may be literally rendered, with the LXX., [apo kephales archonton echthron,] "from the head of the chiefs of the enemies." The hyperbaton, or transposition of words from their grammatical order, is very observable in this verse; the third member forming a continuation of the first, and the fourth of the second. Job 13:24 ; Jeremiah 30:14 ; Lamentations 2:5