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Judges 5:31 KJV
Judges · chapter 5 · verse 31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.Judges 5:31 · King James Version
Judges 5:31 in context
29Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
30Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- enemiesʼôyêbhatingH341 →
- perishʼâbadproperly, to wander awayH6 →
- forthyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- fortyʼarbâʻîymfortyH705 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- loveʼâhabto have affection forH157 →
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Deborah here concludes this triumphant song, I. With the praises of Jael, her sister-heroine, whose valiant act had completed and crowned the victory. She had mentioned her before (Jdg 5:6) as one that would have served her country if it had been in her power;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-31