Hi Gun,
Originally posted by Gunslinger
You mean that's not really in a bible verse?
EDIT: this is as close as I got Ezekiel 25:17 "And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. "
No, it seems Wiki figured out that it's not a bible quote quite some time before I noticed it. Apparently Tarantino was doing an homage to another movie:
"This is actually a typically obscure reference to Karate Kiba / Chiba the Bodyguard, a 1976 film starring Sonny Chiba (whom Tarantino has hailed as "the greatest actor to ever work in martial arts films"), which opens with a nearly identical misquote, likewise attributed to Ezekiel 25:17:
The path of the righteous man and defender is beset on all sides by the iniquity of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious anger, who poison and destroy my brothers; and they shall know that I am Chiba the Bodyguard when I lay my vengeance upon them! (Ezekiel 25:17) " {From Wikipedia}
What clued me in that it wasn't a quote apart from not being able to place it was that the word "tyranny" doesn't occur in the bible and that the context of Ezekiel 25 is the Lord's command to Ezekiel to prophesy in seriatim format the destruction of the nations that have afflicted Israel and rejoiced in her downfall and captivity. So the "shepherd" and "valley" stuff lifted from Psalm 23 and "blessed is he who..." from Psalm 41 is out of place.
Anywho, that's the Tarantino style for you.
- SEAGOON
