24 They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust. 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. 26 I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Deuteronomy 32:24–26
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