25In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.


In Context

22 For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

23 "I will heap calamities upon them and spend my arrows against them.

24 I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

25 In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.

26 I said I would scatter them and blot out their memory from mankind,

27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, 'Our hand has triumphed; the Lord has not done all this.' "

Deuteronomy 32:25 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:25Without 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:25From 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:25Without 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:25Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:25Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers — fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.