Deuteronomy 32:24

They shall be consumed with hunger and the devouring of birds, 1 And there shall be irremediable destruction: 1 I will send forth against them the teeth of wild beasts, 1 With the rage of serpents creeping on the ground. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

23I will gather evils upon them, 1 And will fight with my weapons against them. 1

25Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, 1 And terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; 1 The young man shall perish with the virgin, 1 The suckling with him who has grown old. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:14And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.

Leviticus 26:22And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle: and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.

Deuteronomy 28:53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, all that he has given thee, in thy straitness and thy affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee.

Psalms 91:6How have thy works been magnified, O Lord! 1 Thy thoughts are very deep. 1

Isaiah 65:25Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:18If I go forth into the plain, then behold the slain by the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold the distress of famine! for priest and prophet have gone to a land which they knew not.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:20-26

19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled… Read the whole commentary →

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