Deuteronomy 28:50
Good News Translation
They will be ruthless and show no mercy to anyone, young or old.

New Revised Standard Version
a grim-faced nation showing no respect to the old or favor to the young.

Contemporary English Version
They won't show any mercy, and they will have no respect for old people or pity for children.

New American Bible
a nation of fierce appearance, that shows neither respect for the aged nor mercy for the young.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,

Proverbs 7:13 I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.

Ecclesiastes 8:1 The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.

Daniel 7:7 After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before it, and had ten horns.

Daniel 8:23 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences.

shall not

2 Chronicles 36:17 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands.

Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Luke 19:44 And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

Luke 21:23,24 But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. . . .

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
49The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand, 50A most insolent nation, that will shew no regard to the ancients, nor have pity on the infant,51And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:51
And will devour the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruits of thy land: until thou be destroyed, and will leave thee no wheat, nor wine, nor oil, nor herds of oxen, nor flocks of sheep: until he destroy thee.

Ecclesiastes 8:1
The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.

Isaiah 33:19
The shameless people thou shalt not see, the people of profound speech: so that thou canst not understand the eloquence of his tongue, in whom there is no wisdom.

Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and have given them into thy hand: thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Deuteronomy 28:49
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