Deuteronomy 32:23

23 I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon 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 They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

22 For a fire hath been kindled in Mine anger, And it burneth unto Sheol -- the lowest, And consumeth earth and its increase, And setteth on fire foundations of mountains.

23 I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

24 Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.

25 Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.