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To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

A moi la vengeance et la rétribution, Quand leur pied chancellera! Car le jour de leur malheur est proche, Et ce qui les attend ne tardera pas.

KJV

To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Patristic reading

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  • Gottschalk of Orbais

    Confession and Extended Confession

    ings stored with me, sealed in my treasures? Vengeance is mine, and I will repay them in due time." (Deuteronomy 32:34-35). The day of destruction is near and the appointed time is hastening. (Deuteronomy 32:35). "I will lift my hand to heaven and say: As surely as I live forever…
  • Gottschalk of Orbais

    Confession and Extended Confession

    time." (Deuteronomy 32:34-35). The day of destruction is near and the appointed time is hastening. (Deuteronomy 32:35). "I will lift my hand to heaven and say: As surely as I live forever. When I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold of judgment, I will take vengeance…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    not lawful. For whoever usurps what is God's sins. But vengeance belongs to God, for it is written ( Dt. 32:35, Rom. 12:19 ): "Revenge to Me, and I will repay." Therefore all vengeance is unlawful. Objection 2: Further, he that takes vengeance on a man does not bear with him. But…

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