24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
    and devoured by plague
    and poisonous pestilence;
I will send (A)the teeth of beasts against them,
    with the venom of (B)things that crawl in the dust.
25 (C)Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
    and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 (D)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
    (E)I will wipe them from human memory,”

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24 I will send wasting famine(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence(B) and deadly plague;(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(D)
    the venom of vipers(E) that glide in the dust.(F)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(G) will reign.(H)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(I)
26 I said I would scatter(J) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(K)

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