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24 They will be starved by famines
and ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics.
I will send vicious animals against them
along with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.
25 Foreign wars will kill off their children,
and even at home there will be horrors.
Young men and young women alike will die
as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.
26 I said that I would cut them in pieces
and erase everyone’s memory of them.

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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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