Terrible picture of a people's moral condition drawn by a master-hand! Such is the divine estimate of the real state of all those whose rock was not as the Rock of Israel. But a day of vengeance will come. It is delayed in long-suffering mercy, but it _will_ come as sure as there is a God on the throne of heaven. A day is coming when all those nations which have dealt proudly with Israel shall have to answer at the bar of the Son of Man for their conduct, hear His solemn sentence, and meet His unsparing wrath. "Is not this laid up in store with Me, and _sealed_ _up among My treasures_? To Me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. For the Lord shall judge [vindicate, defend, or avenge] His people, and _repent Himself for His servants_, when He seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left." Precious grace for Israel by and by--for each, for all, _now_, who feel and own their need. "And He shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted; which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rise up and help you and be your protection. See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god with Me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal;"--wound in governmental wrath, and heal in pardoning grace; all homage to His great and holy name, throughout the everlasting ages!--"neither is there airy that can deliver out of My hand. For I lift up My hand to heaven, and say 'I live forever.'"--Glory be to God in the highest! Let all created intelligences adore His matchless name!--"If I whet My glittering sword, and Mine hand take hold on judgment,"--as it most assuredly will--"I will render vengeance to Mine enemies, and will reward them that hate Me"--whoever and wherever they are. Tremendous sentence for all whom it may concern, for all haters of God--all lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God!--"I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, _from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy_." Here we reach the end of the heavy record of judgment, wrath, and vengeance so briefly presented in this song of Moses, but so largely unfolded throughout the prophetic scriptures. The reader can refer, with much interest and profit, to Ezekiel xxxviii. and xxxix, where we have the judgment of Gog and Magog, the great northern foe who is to come up, at the end, against the land of Israel, and there meet his ignominious fall and utter destruction.