Deu 32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. Ver. 23. I will spend mine arrows. ] Which yet cannot be all spent up, as he feared of his Jupiter, Si quoties peccent heroines, &c. read more
Deuteronomy 32:24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. Ver. 24. Burnt with hunger. ] Which makes men’s visages blacker than a coal. Lam 4:8 With burning heat, ] i.e., With the burning carbuncle, or plague sore. See Habakkuk 3:5 . read more
Deu 32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs. Ver. 25. And terror within. ] Warring times are terrible times. By the civil dissensions here in King John’s time, all the kingdom became like a general shambles, or place of infernal terrors and tortures. War, saith one, is a misery which all words, how wide soever, want compass to express. It is, saith another, the slaughter house of mankind, and... read more
Deu 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: Ver. 26. I said I will scatter them. ] See a like text, Ezekiel 20:8-9 . We are sometimes safe by our enemies’ insolences, and as much beholden to their blasphemies as to our own prayers. read more
Deu 32:27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this. Ver. 27. Were it not that I feared. ] See Deuteronomy 32:20 . Lest their adversaries. ] This is that, likely, that moves the Lord hitherto to spare England. God hath dealt with us, not according to his ordinary rule, but according to his prerogative. England, if it may be so spoke with... read more
Deu 32:28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them. Ver. 28. For they are a nation. ] See Trapp on " Deu 4:6 " was Chrysippus that offered that strict and tetrical division to the world, Aut mentem aut restim comparandum. read more
Deu 32:29 O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end! Ver. 29. Oh that this people were wise. ] Sapiens est, cui res sapiunt prout sunt, saith Bernard. That they would consider their latter end. ] This is a high point of heavenly wisdom. Moses himserf desires to learn it. Psa 90:12 David also would fain be taught it. Psa 39:4 Solomon sets a "better" upon it. Ecc 7:2 "Jerusalem’s filthiness was in her skirts, because she remembered not... read more
Deu 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? Ver. 30. How should one chase a thousand? ] i.e., How should one of the enemies chase a thousand Israelites, who had a promise of better things, Lev 26:8 but that having first sold themselves for nought, Isa 52:3 they were now sold by God, who would own them no longer? Psa 31:7-8 read more
Deu 32:31 For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges. Ver. 31. For their rock is not as our rock. ] We may well say, Who is a God like unto thee? Mic 7:18 Contemno minutulos istos deos, mode Iovem (Iehovam) mihi propitium habeam; I care not for those dunghill deities, so I may have the true God to favour me. Even our enemies. ] Exo 14:25 Numbers 23:8 ; Numbers 23:12 1 Samuel 4:8 . read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:22
Deu 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. Ver. 22. For a fire. ] See Trapp on " Deu 10:4 " read more