Deuteronomy 32:42

New American Bible - revised edition

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— With the blood of the slain and the captured, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:22

From the blood of the slain, from the bodies of the warriors, The bow of Jonathan did not turn back, nor the sword of Saul return unstained.

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?

Psalm 45:5

In the cause of truth, meekness, and justice may your right hand show your wondrous deeds.

Psalm 45:6

Your arrows are sharp; peoples will cower at your feet; the king’s enemies will lose heart.

Psalm 68:23

The Lord has said: “Even from Bashan I will fetch them, fetch them even from the depths of the sea.

Isaiah 34:5

When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, it shall come down upon Edom for judgment, upon a people under my ban.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon every height in the wilderness marauders have appeared. The Lord has a sword that consumes the land from end to end: no peace for any living thing.

Jeremiah 16:10

When you proclaim all these words to this people and they ask you: “Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our crime? What sin have we committed against the Lord, our God?”—

Jeremiah 30:14

All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not seek you out. I struck you as an enemy would strike, punishing you cruelly.

Jeremiah 46:10

Today belongs to the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, vengeance on his foes! The sword devours and is sated, drunk with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the land of the north, on the River Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14

Proclaim in Egypt, announce in Migdol, announce in Memphis and Tahpanhes! Say: Fall in, get ready, the sword has devoured your neighbors.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become the enemy, he has devoured Israel: Devoured all its strongholds, destroyed its defenses, Multiplied moaning and groaning throughout daughter Judah.

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap evils upon them and exhaust all my arrows against them: