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Deuteronomy 32:22-24
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 32:22-24
New English Translation
22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,
and it burns to lowest Sheol;[a]
it consumes the earth and its produce,
and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will increase their[b] disasters;
I will use up my arrows on them.
24 They will be starved by famine,
eaten by plague, and bitterly stung;[c]
I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,
along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:22 tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire—a much later concept—but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).
- Deuteronomy 32:23 tn Heb “upon them.”
- Deuteronomy 32:24 tn The Hebrew term קֶטֶב (qetev) is probably metaphorical here for the sting of a disease (HALOT 1091-92 s.v.).
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