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Deuteronomy 32:23

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— ‘I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— I will heap on them, calamities,—Mine arrows, will I spend upon them:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— I will spend plagues vpon them: I will bestowe mine arrowes vpon them.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— I will heape mischiefes vpon them, I will spend mine arrowes vpon them.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
I will heap 5595
{5595} Prime
סָפָה
caphah
{saw-faw'}
A primitive root; properly to scrape (literally to shave; but usually figuratively) together (that is, to accumulate or increase) or away (that is, to scatter, remove or ruin; intransitively to perish).
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
mischiefs 7451
{7451} Prime
רָע
ra`
{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
upon x5921
(5921) Complement
עַל
`al
{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
them; I will spend 3615
{3615} Prime
כָּלָה
kalah
{kaw-law'}
A primitive root; to end, whether intransitively (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitively (to complete, prepare, consume).
z8762
<8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447
mine arrows 2671
{2671} Prime
חֵץ
chets
{khayts}
From H2686; properly a piercer, that is, an arrow; by implication a wound; figuratively (of God) thunder bolt; (by interchange for H6086) the shaft of a spear.
upon them.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Deuteronomy 32:23

_ _ I will spend mine arrows upon them — War, famine, pestilence (Psalms 77:17) are called in Scripture the arrows of the Almighty.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Deuteronomy 32:19-25.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Deuteronomy 32:23

Spend mine arrows — Even empty my quiver, and send upon them all my plagues, which, like arrows shot by a skilful and strong hand, shall speedily reach and certainly hit and mortally wound them.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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heap mischiefs:

Deuteronomy 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Leviticus 26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
Isaiah 24:17-18 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. ... And it shall come to pass, [that] he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
Isaiah 26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.
Jeremiah 15:2-3 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as [are] for death, to death; and such as [are] for the sword, to the sword; and such as [are] for the famine, to the famine; and such as [are] for the captivity, to the captivity. ... And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
Matthew 24:7-8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. ... All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.

spend:

Psalms 7:12-13 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. ... He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Lamentations 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Ezekiel 5:16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Lv 26:18, 24. Dt 28:15. Ps 7:12. Is 24:17; 26:15. Jr 15:2. Lm 3:13. Ezk 5:16; 14:21. Mt 24:7.

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