Deuteronomy 32:23

23 " "I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.

Deuteronomy 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:23

I will heap mischief upon them
One calamity upon another, which are after particularly mentioned:

I will spewed mine arrows upon them;
God is here represented as an enemy to the Jews, as having bent his bow against them like an enemy, ( Lamentations 2:4 ) ; and as having a quiver, and that full of arrows, and as determined to draw out and spend everyone of them, in taking vengeance upon them; which arrows are his four sore judgments mentioned ( Ezekiel 14:21 ) ; and expressed in ( Deuteronomy 32:24 Deuteronomy 32:25 ) .

Deuteronomy 32:23 In-Context

21 With their idols they have made me angry, jealous with their so-called gods, gods that are really not gods. So I will use a so-called nation to make them angry; I will make them jealous with a nation of fools.

22 My anger will flame up like fire and burn everything on earth. It will reach to the world below and consume the roots of the mountains.

23 " "I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.

24 They will die from hunger and fever; they will die from terrible diseases. I will send wild animals to attack them, and poisonous snakes to bite them.

25 War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.