Deuteronomy 32:24-26

Common English Bible

²⁴     devastating hunger, consuming plague, bitter sickness.
I’ll send animal fangs after them,
    venom from dust crawlers too.
²⁵ Outside, in the streets, the sword will bereave!
    Inside, in the safest room, there will be terror
        for young men and women,
        nursing baby and senior citizen.
²⁶ I thought about it: I could have struck them down,^[a]
    erased them from human memory,