KJV King James Version
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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Deuteronomy 32:23
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.
WEB World English Bible
“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
ASV American Standard Version
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
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 in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24 [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.
25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
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Ezekiel 5:16When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:Isaiah 24:17-18Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.Psalm 7:12-13If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.Leviticus 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.Deuteronomy 28:15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:Ezekiel 14:21For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?Lamentations 3:13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.Isaiah 26:15Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.Deuteronomy 29:21And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:Matthew 24:7-8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.Leviticus 26:18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.Jeremiah 15:2-3And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; 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 the captivity, to the captivity.
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