Deuteronomy 32:25

Deuteronomy chapter 32 · verse 25 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroyboth young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroyboth young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

Context

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.

v.25This passage

v.26I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 7:15

    The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • Jeremiah 9:21

    For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

  • Lamentations 4:4

    The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

  • Lamentations 2:19

    Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

  • Lamentations 1:20

    Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:17

    Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.