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# General Information:
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Moses speaks a poetic song to the people of Israel. This is the end of Moses's quotation of Yahweh's words that begins in [Deuteronomy 32:20](./19.md). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# Vengeance is mine to give, and recompense
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The words "vengeance" and "recompense" mean basically the same thing. Alternate translation: "I will have vengeance and punish Israel's enemies" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-doublet]])
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# recompense
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to punish or reward a person for what he has done
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# their foot slips
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Something bad has happened to them. Alternate translation: "they are helpless" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# the day of disaster for them
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"the time for me to destroy them"
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# the things that are to come on them will hurry to happen
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Yahweh speaks of the bad things that will happen to his enemies as if the bad things were people running eagerly to punish them. Alternate translation: "I will punish them quickly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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