King James Version (KJV)
Deuteronomy 32:25
“The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 32
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
[They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, [and] lest they should say, Our hand [is] high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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