Deuteronomy 32:23
What does Deuteronomy 32:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 32:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
KJV
King James Version · 1611I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.
Context
v.22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
v.23This passage
v.24They shall bewasted 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 14:21
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
- Leviticus 26:24
then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Matthew 24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.
- Deuteronomy 29:21
And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
- Isaiah 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Jeremiah 15:2
And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.
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