Deuteronomy 32:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.

Cross References

2 Kings 7:5

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

2 Chronicles 36:17

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

Isaiah 30:16

and said, “No! We will flee upon horses”— therefore you shall flee! 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 are you doing such great harm to yourselves, to cut off man and woman, child and infant, from the midst of Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to settle? Will you be cut off and become an object of cursing and ridicule among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 9:21

“Death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces to cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.”

Lamentations 1:20

Look, O Lord, at how distressed I am; my stomach churns; 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 infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but there is nothing for them.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside; those in the field die by the sword; those in the city—famine and pestilence devour them.

Hosea 11:6

The sword rages in their cities; it consumes their oracle priests and devours because of their schemes.

Hosea 9:12

Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them until no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

Hosea 9:16

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.

Leviticus 26:25

I will bring the sword against you, executing vengeance for the covenant, and if you withdraw into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

Micah 6:14

You shall eat but not be satisfied, and there shall be a gnawing hunger within you; you shall put away but not save, and what you save, I will hand over to the sword.

2 Corinthians 7:5

For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—disputes without and fears within.