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Deuteronomy 32:24

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They will be weak from hunger, ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will unleash on them wild beasts with fangs, as well as venomous snakes that slither in the dust.

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I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.


I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken.’


Plague goes before him, and pestilence follows in his steps.


If they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will track them down and seize them; if they conceal themselves from my sight on the sea floor, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.


‘For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send my four  devastating judgements against Jerusalem #– #sword, famine, dangerous animals, and plague #– #in order to wipe out both people and animals from it!


‘Suppose I allow dangerous animals  to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals.


Our skin is as hot  as an oven from the ravages of hunger.


They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the soil’s surface.  They will be finished off by sword and famine. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land.


‘I will ordain four kinds  of judgement for them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away,  and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land  to devour and destroy.


If I go out to the field, look #– #those slain by the sword! If I enter the city, look #– #those ill  from famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.


The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like cattle, but the serpent’s food will be dust! They will not do what is evil or destroy on my entire holy mountain,’ says the Lord.


‘You will eat your offspring,  the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you  during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.


The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,  blight, and mildew;  these will pursue you until you perish.


He saw that his resting place was good and that the land was pleasant, so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load and became a forced labourer.


So the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.


you will serve your enemies that the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke  on your neck until he has destroyed you.


He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper’s fangs  will kill him.


Indeed, I am about to send snakes among you, poisonous vipers  that cannot be charmed. They will bite you. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


They will lick the dust like a snake; they will come trembling out of their hiding places like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will tremble in the presence of the Lord our God; they will stand in awe of you.





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