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32 Our enemies are grapevines
rooted in the fields
    of Sodom and Gomorrah.[a]
The grapes they produce
    are full of bitter poison;
33 their wine is more deadly
    than cobra venom.
34 But the Lord has written
a list of their sins
    and locked it in his vault.

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Footnotes

  1. 32.32 Sodom and Gomorrah: Two cities that the Lord destroyed because their people were so evil (see Genesis 18.16—19.28).

32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom(A)
    and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are filled with poison,(B)
    and their clusters with bitterness.(C)
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
    the deadly poison of cobras.(D)

34 “Have I not kept this in reserve
    and sealed it in my vaults?(E)

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