Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.Deuteronomy 32:24 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThey shall be burnt with hunger - Their land shall be cursed, and famine shall prevail. This is one of the arrows.
Burning heat - No showers to cool the atmosphere; or rather boils, blains, and pestilential fevers; this was a second.
Bitter destruction - The plague; this was a third.
Teeth of beasts - with the poison of serpents - The beast of the field should multiply upon and destroy them; this was a fourth: and poisonous serpents, infesting all their steps, and whose mortal bite should produce the utmost anguish, were to be a fifth arrow. Added to all these, the sword of their enemies - terror among themselves, Deuteronomy 32:25, and captivity were to complete their ruin, and thus the arrows of God were to be spent upon them. There is a beautiful saying in the Toozuki Teemour, which will serve to illustrate this point, while it exhibits one of the finest metaphors that occurs in any writer, the sacred writers excepted.
"It was once demanded of the fourth Khaleefeh, (Aaly), on whom be the mercy of the Creator, 'If the canopy of heaven were a Bow; and if the earth were the cord thereof; and if calamities were Arrows; if mankind were the mark for those arrows; and if Almighty God, the tremendous and the glorious, were the unerring Archer; to whom could the sons of Adam flee for protection?' The Khaleefeh answered, saying, 'The sons of Adam must flee unto the Lord.'"
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burnt
Deuteronomy 28:53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you...
Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city...
Lamentations 4:4-9 The tongue of the sucking child sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them...
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
burning heat [heb] burning coals
Psalm 18:12-14 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire...
Psalm 120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Habakkuk 3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
the teeth
Leviticus 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number...
Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, said the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven...
Jeremiah 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried...
Ezekiel 5:17 So will I send on you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you: and pestilence and blood shall pass through you...
Ezekiel 14:15,21 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate...
servants
Genesis 3:14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field...
Genesis 49:15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.
Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat...
Amos 9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there...
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