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Deuteronomy 32:35

Deuteronomy 32:35

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Render: Vengeance is mine, and retribution for the time when their feet shall totter; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and that which is prepared for them maketh haste. The tottering of the feet represents the incipient fall.

God would manifest himself as the Avenger when their calamity began to come upon them.

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