Deuteronomy 32:25 Parallel Translations

Foreign wars will kill off their children, and even at home there will be horrors. Young men and young women alike will die as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

DBY:

From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror; slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.

WBS:

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

WEB:

Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers, terror; on both young man and virgin, The suckling with the gray-haired man.

YLT:

Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

Deuteronomy 32:25 Cross References

XREF:

2 Chronicles 36:17 Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

Lamentations 1:20 "See, O LORD, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slays; In the house it is like death.

Lamentations 2:21 On the ground in the streets Lie young and old; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Ezekiel 7:15 'The sword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

32:25 The sword {o} without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
(o) They shall be slain both in the field and at home.

MHC:

32:19-25 The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and here follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves, if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless people. Sin makes us hateful in the sight of the holy God. See what mischief sin does, and reckon those to be fools that mock at it.

CONC:

Baby Bereave Breast Chambers Child Childless Cut Death Destroy Destroying Fear Gray Gray-haired Grey Grey-haired Hair Hairs Homes Infants Inner Inner-chambers Inside Nursling Open Outside Perish Reign Rooms Slaying Sucking Suckling Sword Terror Virgin Within Women Youth

Bereave Chambers Child Childless Cut Death Destroy Destroying Hair Hairs Homes Inner Inner-Chambers Inside Nursling Open Outside Perish Reign Rooms Slaying Street Sucking Suckling Sword Terror Virgin Within Women Young

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