24 They will be weak from hunger,
ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs,
as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.
25 Outside, the sword will take their children,
and inside, there will be terror;
the young man and the young woman will be killed,
the infant and the gray-haired man.(A)

26 “I would have said: I will cut them to pieces[a]
and blot out the memory of them from mankind,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:26 LXX reads will scatter them

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