Deuteronomy 32:25

Without, 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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

In Context

24They 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

26I said, I will scatter them, 1 And I will cause their memorial to cease from among men. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36And to those who are left of you I will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from war, and shall fall when none pursues them.

2 Chronicles 36:17And he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and did not spare Zedekiah, and had no mercy upon their virgins, and they led away their old men: he delivered all things into their hands.

Jeremiah 9:21And the carcasses of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather them.

Jeremiah 44:8and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

Lamentations 2:19Arise, rejoice in the night 1 At the beginning of thy watch: 1 Pour out thy heart as water 1 Before the face of the Lord: 1 Lift up thy hands to him 1 For the life of thine infants, 1 Who faint for hunger 1 At the top of all the streets. 1

Ezekiel 7:15There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.

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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