To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
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Gill's Exposition
To execute vengeance upon the Heathen,.... Either upon the Gentile world, in the first times of the Gospel; when the apostles, going there with the twoedged sword of the word, vehemently inveighed…
Barnes' Notes
To execute vengeance upon the heathen - To inflict punishment upon them as a recompence for their sins. The word pagan here means nations. The allusion is, doubtless, to those who had oppressed and…
The Israel of God are here represented triumphing over their enemies, which is both the matter of their praise (let them give to God the glory of those triumphs) and the recompence of their praise;…
Cambridge Bible
vengeance upon thenations] Cp. Isa 61:2; Isa 63:4.
punishments upon thepeoples] Lit. corrections.
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