God’s justice and love form the ground of both Testaments. One day while speaking to a group of local pastors on the imprecatory psalms, I made the point that there has never been a place for personal vengeance for God’s people. I then quoted Deuteronomy 32:35 (the text, as you may recall, of Jonathan Edwards’s great revival sermon, “Sinners in the hands of an angry God”), where the Lord says: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day
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