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Deuteronomy 32:25

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

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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.

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.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מִחוּץ֙mi.Chutzfrom outsideH2351 →
תְּשַׁכֶּל־te.sha.kel-it will make childlessH7921 →
חֶ֔רֶבChe.reva swordH2719 →
וּמֵחֲדָרִ֖יםu.me.cha.da.Rimand [will be] from inner roomsH2315 →
אֵימָ֑ה'ei.MahterrorH367 →
גַּם־gam-bothH1571 →
בָּחוּר֙ba.Churyoung manH970 →
גַּם־gam-as well asH1571 →
בְּתוּלָ֔הbe.tu.Lahyoung womanH1330 →
יוֹנֵ֖קyo.Neka suckling-childH3243 →
עִם־'im-withH5973 →
אִ֥ישׁ'isha person ofH376 →
שֵׂיבָֽה׃sei.Vahgray hairH7872 →

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Ezekiel 7:15The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.Lamentations 1:20See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.Deuteronomy 7:10But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.Hosea 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.Jeremiah 44:7So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?Jeremiah 51:22With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.Isaiah 30:16“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.Lamentations 4:4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.2 Chronicles 36:17So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,Jeremiah 9:21For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.Leviticus 26:36–37As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.2 Corinthians 7:5For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.Leviticus 19:18Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.Leviticus 26:16then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.2 Kings 7:5So they arose at twilight and went to the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the outskirts of the camp, there was not a man to be found.Jeremiah 51:3Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

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