Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
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.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
International Standard Version
Emaciated from famine, feverish from plague, and destroyed by bitterness, I'll send fanged beasts against them, along with poisonous snakes that glide through the dust.
A Conservative Version
[to be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. And I will send upon them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
American Standard Version
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Amplified
‘They will be wasted by hunger, and consumed by plague
And a bitter destruction;
And I will send the teeth of beasts against them,
With the venom of crawling things of the dust.
Bible in Basic English
They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
Darby Translation
They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
Julia Smith Translation
Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust
King James 2000
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of animals upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;
Modern King James verseion
Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents.
NET Bible
They will be starved by famine, eaten by plague, and bitterly stung; I will send the teeth of wild animals against them, along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.
New Heart English Bible
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
The Emphasized Bible
The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence, - And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust:
Webster
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
World English Bible
[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Youngs Literal Translation
Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.
Themes
Adversity » Sometimes the result of sin and folly
Arrows » Illustrative » Of God's judgment
Beasts » Often used as instruments of punishment
Famine » Caused » Burning and fever
Forgetting » The reward for forgetting the lord
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 32:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Word Of Judgment
23
I will use up My arrows against them.
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.
and inside, there will be terror;
the young man and the young woman will be killed,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:22
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.
Ezekiel 5:17
I will send famine and dangerous animals against you. They will leave you childless, Jerusalem. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the serpent:
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.
Genesis 49:15
and that the land was pleasant,
so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load
and became a forced laborer.
Deuteronomy 28:22
The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,
Deuteronomy 28:53
“You will eat your children,
Psalm 18:12-14
His clouds swept onward with hail and blazing coals.
Psalm 91:6
or the pestilence that ravages at noon.
Psalm 120:4
with burning charcoal!
Isaiah 65:25
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
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.
Jeremiah 14:18
look—those slain by the sword!
If I enter the city,
look—those ill
For both prophet and priest
travel to a land they do not know.
Jeremiah 15:3
“I will ordain four kinds
Jeremiah 16:4
They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like manure on the face of the earth.
Lamentations 4:4-9
ד Dalet
clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.
Little children beg for bread,
but no one gives them any.
Lamentations 5:10
from the ravages of hunger.
Ezekiel 14:15
“If I allow dangerous animals
Ezekiel 14:21
“For this is what the Lord God says: How much worse will it be when I send My four
Amos 5:18-19
What will the Day of the Lord be for you?
It will be darkness and not light.
Amos 9:3
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.
Habakkuk 3:5
and pestilence follows in His steps.