Deuteronomy 32:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ wasting hunger, burning consumption, bitter pestilence. The teeth of beasts I will send against them, with venom of things crawling in the dust.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and the teeth of beasts will I send against them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ They shall be wasted 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.

Common English Bible

²⁴ devastating hunger, consuming plague, bitter sickness. I’ll send animal fangs after them, venom from dust crawlers too.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ They will be consumed by famine, and birds with a very bitter bite will devour them. I will send forth the teeth of wild beasts among them, along with the fury of creatures that scurry across the ground, and of serpents.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite. I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

Deuteronomy 32:24 Cross References

Genesis 3:14

The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

Genesis 49:15

he saw that a resting place was good and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a slave at forced labor.

Job 20:16

They will suck the poison of asps; the tongue of a viper will kill them.

Psalm 120:4

A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!

Psalm 91:6

or the pestilence that stalks in darkness or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, but the serpent—its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, look—those killed by the sword! And if I enter the city, look—those sick with famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade throughout the land and have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall become like dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall become food for the birds of the air and for the wild animals of the earth.

Jeremiah 8:17

See, I am letting snakes loose among you, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the Lord.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I send wild animals through the land to ravage it so that it is made desolate and no one may pass through because of the animals,

Ezekiel 14:21

Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

Ezekiel 5:17

I will send famine and wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and bloodshed shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Leviticus 26:22

I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be deserted.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

Micah 7:17

they shall lick dust like a snake, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their fortresses; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall stand in fear of you.

Habakkuk 3:5

Before him went pestilence, and plague followed close behind.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:53

In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.