Deuteronomy 32:24-26

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁴ wasting hunger,
    burning consumption,
    bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
    with venom of things crawling in the dust.
²⁵ In the street the sword shall bereave,
    and in the chambers terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    nursing child and old gray head.
²⁶ I thought to scatter them^[a]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind;