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The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32, Verse 25

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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.
King James Version
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
American Standard Version
Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
New English Translation
The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
World English Bible
Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
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I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
28
For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.
29
O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
31
For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges.
32
For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:
33
Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34
[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?
35
To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.