Deuteronomy 32:24 meaning and explanation
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
Deuteronomy 32:24, Berean Standard Bible
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These words come from the song Moses taught Israel before his death, and in this stanza God himself is speaking, describing the covenant curses that would fall on a people who abandoned him for idols. The Hebrew word for plague, qetev, carries the sense of destruction or pestilence.
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