KJV 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.
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Deuteronomy 32:25
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Outside, 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.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers—fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
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:
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.
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מִחוּץ֙H2351 · chutsoutsideתְּשַׁכֶּל־H7921 · sha.kholbe bereavedחֶ֔רֶבH2719 · che.revswordוּמֵחֲדָרִ֖יםH2315 · che.derchamberאֵימָ֑הH367 · e.mahterrorגַּם־H1571 · gamalsoבָּחוּר֙H970 · ba.churyouthגַּם־H1571 · gamalsoבְּתוּלָ֔הH1330 · be.tu.lahvirginיוֹנֵ֖קH3243 · ya.naqto suckleעִם־H5973 · imwithאִ֥ישׁH376 · ishmanשֵׂיבָֽה׃H7872 · se.vahgreyheaded
Cross-references
Ezekiel 7:15The 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.Lamentations 1:20Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.Lamentations 4:4The 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.Isaiah 30:16But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.Jeremiah 9:21For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.2 Corinthians 7:5For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.Leviticus 26:36-37And upon them that are left [alive] of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.Lamentations 2:19-22Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.
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