SEV Biblia, Chapter 32:35
Mía es la venganza y el pago, al tiempo que su pie vacilará; porque el día de su aflicción está cercano, y lo que les está determinado se apresura.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:35
Verse 35. Their foot shall slide in due time, &c.] But Calmet thinks that this verse is spoken against the Canaanites, the enemies of the Jewish people.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 35. To me [belongeth] vengeance and recompense , etc.] Or, I will repay, or recompence, as it is quoted in ( Romans 12:19 Hebrews 10:30); and so all the three Targums, the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, here, and so Jarchi interprets it. Vengeance belongs only to a divine Person, not to an Heathen deity called Dice, or vengeance, ( Acts 28:4); nor to Satan and his spiteful angels, nor to any of the sons of men in a private capacity; though magistrates, being in public office, and representing God, are revengers to execute wrath on them that do evil, ( Romans 13:4); otherwise it is peculiar to God; and there is a great deal of reason to believe he will recompence it, as it may be concluded from his hatred of sin, his strict justice, and his faithfulness to his threatenings as well as his promises; from the instances of his vengeance on the old world, on Sodom and Gomorrah, and others; and from his taking vengeance on the inventions even of good men, whose sins he pardons, and especially from his sparing his own Son, when standing in the legal place and, stead of sinners: and this is applicable to Christ, who not only in the days of his flesh took vengeance Satan, and his principalities and powers; and, when he came in his kingdom and power, took vengeance on the Jews his enemies, who would not have him to rule over them; but also, at his spiritual coming, he will take vengeance on antichrist, whom he will destroy with the breath of his mouth, and send that son of perdition into the perdition appointed for him; and pour out the vials of his wrath on all the antichristian states, the time of which is next pointed at: their foot shall slide in [due] time ; there is a time fixed for the reign of antichrist, when it will end, forty two months, or 1260 days; that is, so many years; (see Revelation 11:2 13:5); and a little before the expiration of them, his foot will begin to slide, as the slipping of the foot is just before a fall; and then will the foot of antichrist slip and slide, when the witnesses slain by him shall revive and stand upon their feet, and cause fear to fall on them that are on the earth; and when they shall ascend up into heaven, or rise to superior power and authority, greatness and splendour, than they formerly had, and this in the sight of their enemies; and when there will be earthquakes and revolutions in the several antichristian states; and the tenth part of the great city shall fall, and many persons of renown be slain, and others frightened, and will give glory to the God of heaven; when an angel, or a set of Gospel ministers, shall fly in the midst of heaven, with the everlasting Gospel, to preach to all nations; which will be immediately followed by another, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; when the kings of the earth will dislike and resent various things done by the pope of Rome, and shall hate him, and meditate his ruin, and then may his foot be said to slide; see. ( Revelation 11:11,13 14:6-8 17:16); for the day of their calamity [is] at hand ; a cloudy day, as the word signifies, when the kingdom of the beast will be full of darkness and confusion, ( Revelation 16:10); and when all those calamities shall come upon Babylon, expressed in ( Revelation 14:8-19); and the things that shall come upon them make haste ; even all those evil things God has determined in his counsels and purposes, and which are foretold in prophecy, these shall come upon antichrist in haste; for, though his judgment and damnation may seem to linger and slumber, it shall not; God will hasten it in his due time, and all his judgments will come on Babylon in one day, ( Revelation 18:8).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26-38 - The idolatry and rebellions of Israel deserved, and the justice of God seemed to demand, that they should be rooted out. But He spared Israel and continues them still to be living witnesses of the truth of the Bible, and to silence unbelievers. They are preserved for wise and holy purposes and the prophecies give us some idea what those purposes are The Lord will never disgrace the throne of his glory. It is grea wisdom, and will help much to the return of sinners to God, seriousl to consider their latter end, or the future state. It is here mean particularly of what God foretold by Moses, about this people in the latter days; but it may be applied generally. Oh that men woul consider the happiness they will lose, and the misery they wil certainly plunge into, if they go on in their trespasses! What will be in the end thereof? Jer 5:31. For the Lord will in due time bring dow the enemies of the church, in displeasure against their wickedness When sinners deem themselves most secure, they suddenly fall int destruction. And God's time to appear for the deliverance of his people, is when things are at the worst with them. But those who trus to any rock but God, will find it fail them when they most need it. The rejection of the Messiah by the Jewish nation, is the continuance of their ancient idolatry, apostacy, and rebellion. They shall be brough to humble themselves before the Lord, to repent of their sins, and to trust in their long-rejected Mediator for salvation. Then he wil deliver them, and make their prosperity great.
Original Hebrew
לי נקם 5359 ושׁלם 8005 לעת 6256 תמוט 4131 רגלם 7272 כי 3588 קרוב 7138 יום 3117 אידם 343 וחשׁ 2363 עתדת׃ 6264
