Deuteronomy 32:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

The sword outside, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the nursing child also with the man of gray hairs.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Outside, the sword will bring bereavement, and inside, there will be terror. It will affect both the young man and the young woman, the nursing child with the gray-haired man.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    [Without]{H2351} [shall the sword]{H2719} [bereave, And in the chambers]{H2315} [terror;]{H367} [It shall destroy]{H7921} both young man{H970} and virgin,{H1330} The suckling{H3243} with the man{H376} of gray hairs.{H7872}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    The sword{H2719} without{H2351}, and terror{H367} within{H2315}, shall destroy{H7921}{(H8762)} both the young man{H970} and the virgin{H1330}, the suckling{H3243}{(H8802)} also with the man{H376} of gray hairs{H7872}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Without forth, the swerde shall robbe the off theire childern: and wythin in the chamber, feare: both younge men and younge wemen and the suckelynges with the me of gray heedes.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Without shall the swearde robbe them, & feare in the chambers, both the yonge man and yonge woman, the suckynge children wt the gray headed man.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The sworde shall kill them without, and in the chambers feare: both the yong man and the yong woman, the suckeling with the man of gray heare.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Withoutforth shall the sworde robbe them of their children, and within in the chamber feare: both young men & young women, and the suckelynges, with the men of gray heades.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 7:15 : 15 The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within; he who is in the field shall die by the sword, and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
  • Lam 1:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
  • Lam 2:19-22 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street. 20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have killed, and not pitied. 22 You have called as on a solemn day my terrors all around, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have nurtured and brought up my enemy has consumed.
  • Lam 4:4 : 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.
  • 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; outside were conflicts, inside were fears.
  • Lev 26:36-37 : 36 And upon those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one flees from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursues: and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
  • 2 Chr 36:17 : 17 Therefore, he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or young woman, old man, or aged; he gave them all into his hand.
  • Isa 30:16 : 16 But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore you shall flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.
  • Jer 9:21 : 21 For death has climbed up into our windows, and has entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

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