Deuteronomy 32:23
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New International Version (©2011)
"I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will heap disasters upon them and shoot them down with my arrows.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will pile disasters on them; I will use up My arrows against them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'll bury them in misfortunes and bring them to an end with my arrows.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will bring one disaster after another on them. I will use up all my arrows on them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.

American King James Version
I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them.

American Standard Version
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

Darby Bible Translation
I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.

English Revised Version
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

Webster's Bible Translation
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.

World English Bible
"I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

Young's Literal Translation
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:19-25 The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and here follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves, if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless people. Sin makes us hateful in the sight of the holy God. See what mischief sin does, and reckon those to be fools that mock at it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - I will spend mine arrows upon them; I will inflict on them so many calamities that none shall remain. The evils sent on men by God are represented as arrows shot on them from above. (Cf. ver. 42; Job 6:4; Psalm 7:13; Psalm 38:2; Psalm 45:5; Psalm 58:7; Zechariah 9:14; Homer, 'Iliad,' 1:45, etc.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will heap mischief upon them,.... One calamity upon another, which are after particularly mentioned:

I will spewed mine arrows upon them; God is here represented as an enemy to the Jews, as having bent his bow against them like an enemy, Lamentations 2:4; and as having a quiver, and that full of arrows, and as determined to draw out and spend everyone of them, in taking vengeance upon them; which arrows are his four sore judgments mentioned Ezekiel 14:21; and expressed in Deuteronomy 32:24.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. I will spend mine arrows upon them—War, famine, pestilence (Ps 77:17) are called in Scripture the arrows of the Almighty.

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The Song of Moses
…22For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them. 24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts on them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. …

Deuteronomy 29:21 The LORD will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders."
2 Samuel 22:15 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
Psalm 18:14 He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy, with great bolts of lightning he routed them.
Psalm 45:5 Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.