Deuteronomy 32:42

The Scriptures 2009

I make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword devours flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the long-haired enemy chiefs.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:22

“From the blood of the slain, From the fat of the mighty, The bow of Yehonathan did not turn back, And the sword of Sha’ul did not return empty.

Job 13:24

Why do You hide Your face, and reckon me as Your enemy?

Psalm 45:5

Your arrows are sharp In the heart of the Sovereign’s enemies – Peoples fall under You.

Psalm 45:6

Your throne, O Elohim, is forever and ever; The sceptre of Your reign Is a sceptre of straightness.

Psalm 68:23

So that you plunge your foot in blood; That the tongues of your dogs Have their portion from the enemies.

Isaiah 34:5

“For My sword shall be drenched in the heavens. Look, it comes down on Eḏom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.

Jeremiah 12:12

“The ravagers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness, for the sword of יהוה is devouring from one end of the land to the other end of the land. There is no peace to any flesh.

Jeremiah 16:10

“And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, ‘Why has יהוה pronounced all this great evil against us? And what is our crookedness, and what is our sin that we have committed against יהוה our Elohim?’

Jeremiah 30:14

All those loving you have forgotten you, they do not seek you. For I struck you as an enemy strikes, with cruel chastisement, because your crookedness is great, your sins have increased.

Jeremiah 46:10

For this is the day of the Master יהוה of hosts, a day of vengeance, to revenge Himself on His adversaries. And the sword shall devour, and be satisfied and made drunk with their blood. For the Master יהוה of hosts has a slaughtering in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

Jeremiah 46:14

“Declare in Mitsrayim, and let it be heard in Miḡdol. And let it be heard in Noph and in Taḥpanḥes. Say, ‘Stand fast and be prepared, for a sword shall devour all around you.’

Lamentations 2:5

יהוה has been like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yisra’ĕl, He has swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed her strongholds. And He increases mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Yehuḏah.

Deuteronomy 32:23

“I gather evils upon them, I use up My arrows upon them –