Deuteronomy 32:24 Meaning
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Context Explained
22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Key Themes
Related Cross References
Lamentations 3:4
Both verses describe the suffering and destruction that come as a result of God's judgment.
Ezekiel 5:17
This verse similarly describes the calamities that will befall the people due to their disobedience.
Revelation 9:3
The imagery of destruction and suffering resonates with the plagues described in Revelation.
Source: Deuteronomy 32:24