Quotation for Avodah Zarah 7:5

רבי חמא בר' חנינא רמי כתיב (ישעיהו כז, ד) חימה אין לי וכתיב (נחום א, ב) נוקם ה' ובעל חימה לא קשיא כאן בישראל כאן בעובדי כוכבים רב חיננא בר פפא אמר חימה אין לי שכבר נשבעתי מי יתנני שלא נשבעתי אהיה שמיר ושית וגו'

R. Hama b. Hanina pointed to another contradiction: It is written, “I have no fury,” (Isaiah 27:4), yet it is also written, “The Lord takes revenge and is furious” (Nahum 1:2). There is no contradiction: the former refers to Israel, the latter to non-Jews. R. Hinena b. Papa said: “I have no fury” for I already vowed, would that I had not so vowed, then, “If one offers Me thorns and thistles, I will march to battle against him, And set all of them on fire” (Isaiah 27:4).

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