But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
10. And repayeth them that hate him. There is no mention here made of the vengeance “unto the third and fourth generation? Added in Fr., “Mais seulement que Dieu punira les delinquans;” but only that God will punish the transgressors.
Here is, I. A very strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those that are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitful works of darkness. These things they are charged about for the preventing of this snare now before them. 1. They must show them no mercy, Deu 7:1, Deu 7:2.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 7:1-11
And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them,.... Openly, publicly, and at once, they not being able to make any resistance. Onkelos interprets it in their lifetime, and so Jarchi which agrees with the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem: "or to his face"; (f) the face of God; that is, he will punish them that hate him to his face, who...