Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted by hunger and devoured by burning heat 1 and bitter destruction; 1 I will send on them the teeth of wild animals, 1 with the poison of things that crawl in the dust. 1

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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 heap disasters on them; 1 I will shoot all my arrows at them; 1

25Outside the sword will bereave, 1 and in the bedrooms terror will do so. 1 It will destroy both young man and virgin, 1 the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:14Yahweh God said to the serpent, 1 “Because you have done this, 1 cursed are you alone among all the livestock 1 and all the beasts of the field. 1 It is on your stomach that you will go, 1 and it is dust that you will eat all the days of your life. 1

Leviticus 26:22I will send dangerous animals against you, which will steal your children, destroy your cattle, and make you few in number. So your roads will become deserted.

Deuteronomy 28:53You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will put upon you.

Psalms 91:6or of the plague that roams around in the darkness, 1 or of the disease that comes at noontime. 1

Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; 1 but dust will be the serpent's food. 1 They will no longer hurt nor destroy on all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the field, there are the ones who were killed by the sword! 1 If I come to the city, there are the diseases that are caused by famine. 1 Both the prophet and the priest wander about the land, and they do not know.'” 1

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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