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,(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 32:26 LXX reads will scatter them

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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24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

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