Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
After many terrible threatenings of deserved wrath and vengeance, we have here surprising intimations of mercy, undeserved mercy, which rejoices against judgment, and by which it appears that God has no pleasure in the death of sinners, but would rather they should turn and live. I. In jealousy for his own honour, he will not make a full end of them, Deu 32:26-28. 1.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 32:26-38
Is not this laid up in store with me,.... The fruit of the degenerate vine, its bitter clusters of grapes, and poisonous wine; meaning the evil principles and practices of the apostate church, well known to God, taken notice of by him, and laid up in his mind and memory; for both she and her sins will come in remembrance before God, and will be...
Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (r) The fruit of the wicked are as poison, detestable to God, and dangerous for man.