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.
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. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within: both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years. |
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.
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.
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!
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?
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?
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
The sword rages in their cities; it consumes their oracle priests and devours because of their schemes.
Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them until no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
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.
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.
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.
For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—disputes without and fears within.