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Deuteronomy 32:30-32
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 32:30-32
New English Translation
30 How can one man chase a thousand of them,[a]
and two pursue ten thousand,
unless their Rock had delivered them up[b]—
and the Lord had handed them over?
31 For our enemies’[c] rock is not like our Rock,
as even our enemies concede.
32 For their vine is from the stock[d] of Sodom,
and from the fields of Gomorrah.[e]
Their grapes contain venom;
their clusters of grapes are bitter.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:30 tn The words “man” and “of them” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
- Deuteronomy 32:30 tn Heb “sold them” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
- Deuteronomy 32:31 tn Heb “their,” but the referent (enemies) is specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.
- Deuteronomy 32:32 tn Heb “vine.”
- Deuteronomy 32:32 sn Sodom…Gomorrah. The term “vine” is a reference to the pagan deities which, the passage says, find their ultimate source in Sodom and Gomorrah, that is, in the soil of perversion exemplified by these places (cf. Gen 18:20; 19:4-28; Isa 1:10; 3:9; Jer 23:14; Lam 4:6; Ezek 16:44-52; Matt 10:15; 11:23-24).
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