Ulangan 32:35

32:35 I will get revenge and pay them back

at the time their foot slips;

for the day of their disaster is near,

and the impending judgment ¹  is rushing upon them!”

Mazmur 94:1

Psalm 94 ² 

94:1 O Lord, the God who avenges!

O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! ³ 

Roma 2:5-11

2:5 But because of your stubbornness ⁴  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ⁵  2:6 He ⁶  will reward ⁷  each one according to his works: ⁸  2:7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality, 2:8 but ⁹  wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition ¹⁰  and do not obey the truth but follow ¹¹  unrighteousness. 2:9 There will be ¹²  affliction and distress on everyone ¹³  who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek, ¹⁴  2:10 but ¹⁵  glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek. 2:11 For there is no partiality with God.

[32:35]  ¹ tn Heb “prepared things,” “impending things.” See BDB 800 s.v. עָתִיד.

[94:1]  ² sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

[94:1]  ³ tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).

[2:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

[2:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

[2:6]  ⁶ tn Grk “who.” The relative pronoun was converted to a personal pronoun and, because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[2:6]  ⁷ tn Or “will render,” “will recompense.” In this context Paul is setting up a hypothetical situation, not stating that salvation is by works.

[2:6]  ⁸ sn A quotation from Ps 62:12; Prov 24:12; a close approximation to Matt 16:27.

[2:8]  ⁹ tn This contrast is clearer and stronger in Greek than can be easily expressed in English.

[2:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “those who [are] from selfish ambition.”

[2:8]  ¹¹ tn Grk “are persuaded by, obey.”

[2:9]  ¹² tn No verb is expressed in this verse, but the verb “to be” is implied by the Greek construction. Literally “suffering and distress on everyone…”

[2:9]  ¹³ tn Grk “every soul of man.”

[2:9]  ¹⁴ sn Paul uses the term Greek here and in v. 10 to refer to non-Jews, i.e., Gentiles.

[2:10]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “but even,” to emphasize the contrast. The second word has been omitted since it is somewhat redundant in English idiom.