Deuteronomy 32:25 meaning and explanation

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Deuteronomy 32:25, Berean Standard Bible

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Moses speaks this line in the song God gave him for Israel (verses 19 to 25 record the LORD's own words of judgment). The setting is covenant lawsuit: Israel, called Jeshurun in verse 15, grew fat and abandoned the God who made them, so the curses of the covenant fall.

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