Thus says the LORD of hosts,
I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Reckoned up. God speaks in a human manner, as if he had been reading the history of ancient times, Exodus xvii. 14. (Menochius)
The Amalecites had treated Israel with inhumanity, above 400 years before. God's vengeance is often slow, but only so much the more terrible. (Calmet)
Hebrew pakadti, I have visited, or will punish and remember.
