Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 32 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
From the Song of Moses. ‘Vengeance is mine’ is wielded as warning, not comfort — the same God who saves will judge those who spurn the saving.
High confidence12:19 cites with the formula 'it is written': 'Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.' The wording reflects the Song of Moses (with a form closer to the Targum/Hebrew than LXX), making divine retribution the ground for renouncing personal revenge.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'the Lord is an avenger in all these things' draws on the Song of Moses, 'Vengeance is mine, and recompense.' Paul invokes the divine prerogative of vengeance to enforce sexual justice toward a wronged brother, as he does explicitly in Romans 12:19.
High confidence'A righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you' enacts the lex talionis of the Song of Moses, where vengeance and recompense belong to the LORD. Paul grounds eschatological retribution in this Torah principle of divine, not human, requital. Cf. the same passage cited at Romans 12:19.
High confidenceIn the Song of Moses, 'vengeance is mine, and recompense,' the day of calamity that comes upon the faithless. Jesus' 'these are days of vengeance' invokes this Mosaic-covenant lawsuit and its appointed day of retribution. High coherence with the covenant-curse framework.
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