📜WEB · Deuteronomy 32:25
What does Deuteronomy 32:25 mean?
"Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man."
— Deuteronomy 32:25 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.
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 venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
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