Deuteronomy 32:24-25

(24, 25)

“Consumed[8] with hunger, and devoured with pestilence, and bitter destruction—

[8] Or, possibly, “Regaled with hunger, and fed with bread of pestilence and bitter destruction,” &c.

I will also send the tooth of the beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.Outside the sword bereaveth, and in the chambers terror:Both young man and maiden, the suckling with the man of grey hairs.”

God’s four sore judgments are all depicted here—“the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence.” With Deuteronomy 32:25 comp. Jeremiah 14:18, “If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.”