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23 I’ll throw[a] on them disaster after disaster;
    I’ll destroy them with my arrows:
24     devastating hunger, consuming plague, bitter sickness.
I’ll send animal fangs after them,
    venom from dust crawlers too.
25 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:23 LXX

23 “I will heap calamities(A) on them
    and spend my arrows(B) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(C) against them,
    consuming pestilence(D) and deadly plague;(E)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(F)
    the venom of vipers(G) that glide in the dust.(H)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(I) will reign.(J)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(K)

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