Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside 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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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 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

26I said that I would scatter them far away, 1 that I would make the memory of them to cease from among mankind. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who are left in your enemies' lands, I will send fear into your hearts so that even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will startle you, and you will flee as though you were fleeing from the sword. You will fall, even when no one is chasing you.

2 Chronicles 36:17So God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.

Jeremiah 9:21For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. 1 It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares. 1

Jeremiah 44:8By your wickedness you have offended me with the deeds of your hands, by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live. You have gone there so that you will be destroyed, so that you will be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth.

Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! 1 Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. 1 Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint with hunger at the corner of every street.” 1

Ezekiel 7:15The sword is on the outside, and plague and famine are inside the building. 1 Those who are in the field will die by the sword, while famine and plague will consume those in the city. 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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