Deut 32:42

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make mine.

Deut 32:23; Ps 45:5; Ps 68:23; Isa 34:6-8; Jer 16:10; Ezek 35:6-8; Ezek 38:21; Ezek 38:22

revenges.

The word {par�h,} rendered revenges, a sense in which it never seems to be used, has rendered this passage very obscure.

As the word {paira} signifies the hair of the head, both in Hebrew and Arabic, Mr. Parkhurst and others render {mairosh par�h,} "from the hairy head;" but to have this sense, the words should rather have been {mippar�h rosh,} according the Hebrew idiom.

The word {far�,} in Arabic, however, also denotes a prince or chief; and the words may be literally rendered, with the LXX., [apo kephales archonton echthron,] "from the head of the chiefs of the enemies."

The hyperbaton, or transposition of words from their grammatical order, is very observable in this verse; the third member forming a continuation of the first, and the fourth of the second.

Job 13:24; Jer 30:14; Lam 2:5