Deuteronomy 32:25 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁵ In the open the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ From without the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Outside, in the streets, the sword will bereave! Inside, in the safest room, there will be terror for young men and women, nursing baby and senior citizen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Outside, the sword will devastate them; and inside, there will be dread, as much for the young man as for the maiden, and as much for the newborn as for the old man.

Deuteronomy 32:25 Cross References

2 Kings 7:5

So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians; but when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged; he gave them all into his hand.

Isaiah 30:16

but you said, “No! We will speed upon horses,” therefore you shall speed away; and, “We will ride upon swift steeds,” therefore your pursuers shall be swift.

Jeremiah 44:7

And now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has come up into our windows, it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.

Lamentations 1:20

“Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my soul is in tumult, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.

Lamentations 4:4

The tongue of the nursling cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour.

Hosea 11:6

The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.

Hosea 9:12

Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, I will slay their beloved children.

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant; and if you gather within your cities I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Micah 6:14

You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger in your inward parts; you shall put away, but not save, and what you save I will give to the sword.

2 Corinthians 7:5

For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within.