Deuteronomy 32:34-35

32:34 “Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, ¹ 

“Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

32:35 I will get revenge and pay them back

at the time their foot slips;

for the day of their disaster is near,

and the impending judgment ²  is rushing upon them!”

Deuteronomy 32:41-43

32:41 I will sharpen my lightning-like sword,

and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; ³ 

I will execute vengeance on my foes,

and repay those who hate me! ⁴ 

32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword will devour flesh –

the blood of the slaughtered and captured,

the chief ⁵  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

32:43 Cry out, O nations, with his people,

for he will avenge his servants’ blood;

he will take vengeance against his enemies,

and make atonement for his land and people.

Jeremiah 3:5

3:5 You will not always be angry with me, will you?

You will not be mad at me forever, will you?’ ⁶ 

That is what you say,

but you continually do all the evil that you can.” ⁷ 

Micah 7:18

7:18 There is no other God like you! ⁸ 

You ⁹  forgive sin

and pardon ¹⁰  the rebellion

of those who remain among your people. ¹¹ 

You do not remain angry forever, ¹² 

but delight in showing loyal love.

Romans 2:5-6

2:5 But because of your stubbornness ¹³  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ¹⁴  2:6 He ¹⁵  will reward ¹⁶  each one according to his works: ¹⁷ 

Romans 2:2

2:2 Now we know that God’s judgment is in accordance with truth ¹⁸  against those who practice such things.

Romans 2:9

2:9 There will be ¹⁹  affliction and distress on everyone ²⁰  who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, ²¹ 

[32:34]  ¹ tn Verses 34-35 appear to be a quotation of the Lord and so the introductory phrase “says the Lord” is supplied in the translation.

[32:35]  ² tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.

[32:41]  ³ tn Heb “judgment.” This is a metonymy, a figure of speech in which the effect (judgment) is employed as an instrument (sword, spear, or the like), the means, by which it is brought about.

[32:41]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term שָׂנֵא (sane’, “hate”) in this covenant context speaks of those who reject Yahweh’s covenant overtures, that is, who disobey its stipulations (see note on the word “rejecting” in Deut 5:9; also see Deut 7:10; 2 Chr 19:2; Ps 81:15; 139:20-21).

[32:42]  ⁵ tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).

[3:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “Will he keep angry forever? Will he maintain [it] to the end?” The questions are rhetorical and expect a negative answer. The change to direct address in the English translation is intended to ease the problem of the rapid transition, common in Hebrew style (but not in English), from second person direct address in the preceding lines to third person indirect address in these two lines. See GKC 462 §144.p.

[3:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “You do the evil and you are able.” This is an example of hendiadys, meaning “You do all the evil that you are able to do.”

[7:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “Who is a God like you?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “No one!”

[7:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “one who.” The prayer moves from direct address (second person) in v. 18a to a descriptive (third person) style in vv. 18b-19a and then back to direct address (second person) in vv. 19b-20. Due to considerations of English style and the unfamiliarity of the modern reader with alternation of persons in Hebrew poetry, the entire section has been rendered as direct address (second person) in the translation.

[7:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “pass over.”

[7:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “of the remnant of his inheritance.”

[7:18]  ¹² tn Heb “he does not keep hold of his anger forever.”

[2:5]  ¹³ tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

[2:5]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

[2:6]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[2:6]  ¹⁶ tn Or “will render,” “will recompense.” In this context Paul is setting up a hypothetical situation, not stating that salvation is by works.

[2:6]  ¹⁷ sn A quotation from Ps 62:12; Prov 24:12; a close approximation to Matt 16:27.

[2:2]  ¹⁸ tn Or “based on truth.”

[2:9]  ¹⁹ tn No verb is expressed in this verse, but the verb “to be” is implied by the Greek construction. Literally “suffering and distress on everyone…”

[2:9]  ²⁰ tn Grk “every soul of man.”

[2:9]  ²¹ sn Paul uses the term Greek here and in v. 10 to refer to non-Jews, i.e., Gentiles.