SEV Biblia, Chapter 32:23
Yo allegaré males sobre ellos; emplearé en ellos mis saetas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:23
Verse 23. I will spend mine arrows upon them.] The judgments of God in general are termed the arrows of God, Job vi. 4; Psa. xxxviii. 2, 3; xci. 5; see also Ezek. v. 16; Jer. l. 14; 2 Sam. xxii. 14, 15. In this and the following verses, to the 28th inclusive, God threatens this people with every species of calamity that could possibly fall upon man. How strange it is that, having this law continually in their hands, they should not discern those threatened judgments, and cleave to the Lord that they might be averted! It was customary among the heathens to represent any judgment from their gods under the notion of arrows, especially a pestilence; and one of their greatest deities, Apollo, is ever represented as bearing a bow and quiver full of deadly arrows; so Homer, Il. i., ver. 43, where he represents him, in answer to the prayer of his priest Chryses, coming to smite the Greeks with the pestilence:- Æwv efatÆ eucomenovù tou dÆ eklue foibov apollwn. bh de katÆ oulumpoio karhnwn cwomenov khr, toxÆ wmoisin ecwn amfhrefea te faretrhn. - ÆezetÆ epeitÆ apaneuqe newnù meta dÆ ion ehkeù deinh de klaggh genetÆ argureoio bioio. k. t. l.
"Thus Chryses pray'd; the favouring power attends, And from Olympus' lofty tops descends.
Bent was his bow the Grecian hearts to wound; Fierce as he moved, his silver shafts resound; - The fleet in view, he twang'd his deadly' bow, And hissing fly the feather'd fates below.
On mules and dogs the infection first began; And last the vengeful arrows fix'd in man." How frequently the same figure is employed in the sacred writings, every careful reader knows; and quotations need not be multiplied.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 23. I will heap mischief upon them , etc.] 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 32:24,25).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 19-25 - The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and her follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless people. Sin makes u hateful in the sight of the holy God. See what mischief sin does, an reckon those to be fools that mock at it.
Original Hebrew
אספה 5595 עלימו 5921 רעות 7451 חצי 2671 אכלה׃ 3615
