Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"[They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust. Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs." — Deuteronomy 32:24-25 (ASV)
Consumed with hunger, and devoured with pestilence, and bitter destruction—
Or, possibly, “Regaled with hunger, and fed with bread of pestilence and bitter destruction,” etc.
I will also send the tooth of the beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Outside the sword bereaves, 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. Compare Deuteronomy 32:25 with 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! indeed both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they do not know.