Deuteronomy 32:24-29

English Standard Version

²⁴they 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,”
²⁷had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^(F)“Our hand is triumphant,
    it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

²⁸“For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is ^(G)no understanding in them.
²⁹^(H)If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would ^(I)discern their latter end!