Deuteronomy 32:42

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.

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  • Deut 32:23 : 23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
  • Jer 46:10 : 10 But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.
  • Jer 46:14 : 14 Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
  • Ezek 35:6-8 : 6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you. 7 And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings. 8 I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.
  • Ezek 38:21-22 : 21 And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother. 22 And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.
  • Job 13:24 : 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?
  • Ps 45:5 : 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.
  • Ps 68:23 : 23 So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.
  • Isa 34:6-8 : 6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom. 7 And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle. 8 For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.
  • Jer 16:10 : 10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?
  • Jer 30:14 : 14 Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 41 If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

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    22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

    23 I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

    24 They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

  • 43 Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.

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    38 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • Ezek 32:5-6
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    5 And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.

    6 And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you.

  • Isa 34:5-6
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    5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.

    6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.

  • 7 To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;

  • 10 But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

  • 6 And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

  • 35 Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.

  • 9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.

  • 41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • 3 And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.

  • 21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • 4 His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.

  • 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Ps 18:37-38
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    37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

  • 40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • 48 It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

  • 31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • 24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • 4 For the day of punishment is in my heart, and the year for the payment of the price for my people has come.

  • 2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;

  • 5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

  • 6 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

  • 4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

  • 14 I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.

  • 24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

  • 26 And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.

  • 8 I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.

  • 17 And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.

  • 6 He will be judge among the nations, the valleys will be full of dead bodies; the head over a great country will be wounded by him.

  • 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

  • 12 I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction.

  • 5 Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

  • 8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.

  • 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

  • 37 And I will let Elam be broken before their haters, and before those who are making designs against their lives: I will send evil on them, even my burning wrath, says the Lord; and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them:

  • 10 The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.

  • 22 From the blood of the dead, from the fat of the strong, the bow of Jonathan was not turned back, the sword of Saul did not come back unused.

  • 47 It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.

  • 31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • 22 And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.