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To: Ezekiel

swift reckoning.

Not Biblical.

Muslim:
And God is swift at reckoning. (Qur’an, three:199)


37 posted on 05/21/2014 4:48:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: combat_boots
Excellent catch. Thanks. Here's a link with the various English translations. The muslim god is ever so beneficent and merciful (strangest definition of bloodthirsty I've ever seen).

I was thinking along the lines of "recompense", as in Isa 66.6

A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the Lord rendering recompense to his enemies:

Deu 32.35. To me belongs vengeance, and recompense when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste:

42 posted on 05/21/2014 5:45:46 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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