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24 I will waste them with hunger,

Burning fever, and fatal disease.

I will devour them! I will set wild beasts upon them,

To rip them apart with their teeth;

And deadly serpents

Crawling in the dust.

25 Outside, the enemies’ sword—

Inside, the plague[a]

Shall terrorize young men and girls alike;

The baby nursing at the breast,

And aged men.

26 I had decided to scatter them to distant lands,

So that even the memory of them

Would disappear.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:25 the plague, implied.

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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