Deuteronomy 32:24 “They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter p…”

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

American Standard Version

They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

Geneva Bible 1599

They shalbe burnt with hunger, and consumed with heate, and with bitter destruction: I will also sende the teeth of beastes vpon them, with the venime of serpents creeping in the dust.

Darby Translation

They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.

Young's Literal Translation

Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

Bible in Basic English

They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

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Cross references

“burnt”

Deuteronomy 28:53 Jeremiah 14:18 Lamentations 4:4–9 Lamentations 5:10

Deuteronomy 28:53 · BSB

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Lamentations 4:4–9 · BSB

The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.

Lamentations 5:10 · BSB

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

“burning heat”

Psalm 18:12–14 Psalm 120:4 Habakkuk 3:5

Psalm 18:12–14 · BSB

From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 120:4 · BSB

Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!

Habakkuk 3:5 · BSB

Plague went before Him, and fever followed in His steps.

“the teeth”

Leviticus 26:22 Ezekiel 5:17 Jeremiah 15:3 Jeremiah 16:4 Ezekiel 14:15 Ezekiel 14:21

Leviticus 26:22 · BSB

I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

Ezekiel 5:17 · BSB

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 15:3 · BSB

I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4 · BSB

“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air an…

Ezekiel 14:15 · BSB

Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

Ezekiel 14:21 · BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?

“serpents”

Genesis 3:14 Genesis 49:15 Isaiah 65:25 Amos 9:3

Genesis 3:14 · BSB

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

Genesis 49:15 · BSB

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

Isaiah 65:25 · BSB

The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

Amos 9:3 · BSB

Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Also

Psalm 91:6 Amos 5:18–19 Deuteronomy 28:22

Psalm 91:6 · BSB

nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

Amos 5:18–19 · BSB

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Deuteronomy 28:22 · BSB

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

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