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23 I’ll bury them in misfortunes
    and bring them to an end with my arrows.
24 Emaciated from famine,
    feverish from plague,
    and destroyed by bitterness,
I’ll send fanged beasts against them,
    along with poisonous snakes that glide through the dust.
25 Outside, the sword will cause bereavement;
    within,[a] there will be terror
        for the young man and virgin alike,
        also for the nursing infant and the aged man.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:25 Lit. within the room
  2. Deuteronomy 32:25 Lit. and a man of gray hair

23 “I will heap calamities(A) on them
    and spend my arrows(B) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(C) against them,
    consuming pestilence(D) and deadly plague;(E)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(F)
    the venom of vipers(G) that glide in the dust.(H)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(I) will reign.(J)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(K)

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