Deuteronomy 32:22-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²² For a fire is kindled by my anger,
    and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the earth and its increase,
    and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
²³ I will heap disasters upon them,
    spend my arrows against them:
²⁴ wasting hunger,
    burning consumption,
    bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
    with venom of things crawling in the dust.
²⁵ In the street the sword shall bereave,
    and in the chambers terror,
for young man and woman alike,
    nursing child and old grey head.
²⁶ I thought to scatter them^[a]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
²⁷ but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.’