KJV King James Version
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
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Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
WEB World English Bible
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
ASV American Standard Version
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
39 See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O ye nations, [with] his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, [and] to his people.
44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
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אַשְׁכִּ֤ירH7937 · sha.kharbe drunkחִצַּי֙H2671 · chetsarrowמִדָּ֔םH1818 · dambloodוְחַרְבִּ֖יH2719 · che.revswordתֹּאכַ֣לH398 · a.khalto eatבָּשָׂ֑רH1320 · ba.sarfleshמִדַּ֤םH1818 · dambloodחָלָל֙H2491 · cha.lalslain: killedוְשִׁבְיָ֔הH7633 · shiv.yahcaptiveמֵרֹ֖אשׁH7218 · roshheadפַּרְע֥וֹתH6546 · par.ahleaderאוֹיֵֽב׃H341 · o.yevenemy
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 32:23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.Ezekiel 38:21-22And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.Jeremiah 46:10For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.Psalm 68:23That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of [thine] enemies, [and] the tongue of thy dogs in the same.Jeremiah 46:14Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.Psalm 45:5Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.Job 13:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?Jeremiah 16:10And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity? or what [is] our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?Ezekiel 35:6-8Therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.Lamentations 2:5The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; [because] thy sins were increased.Isaiah 34:6-8The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
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