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24 Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

25 Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

26 I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

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24 I will send wasting famine(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence(B) and deadly plague;(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(D)
    the venom of vipers(E) that glide in the dust.(F)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(G) will reign.(H)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(I)
26 I said I would scatter(J) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(K)

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