Deuteronomy 32:23
New International Version
“I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.

New Living Translation
I will heap disasters upon them and shoot them down with my arrows.

English Standard Version
“‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;

Berean Standard Bible
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

King James Bible
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

New King James Version
‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

New American Standard Bible
‘I will add misfortunes to them; I will use up My arrows on them.

NASB 1995
‘I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.

NASB 1977
‘I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘I will heap calamities on them; I will exhaust My arrows on them.

Amplified Bible
‘I will heap misfortunes on them; I will use My arrows on them.

Christian Standard Bible
“I will pile disasters on them; I will use up my arrows against them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will pile disasters on them; I will use up My arrows against them.

American Standard Version
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall gather evils upon them and I shall feed them my thunderbolts.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I will gather evils upon them, and will fight with my weapons against them.

Contemporary English Version
I'll send disaster after disaster to strike you like arrows.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

English Revised Version
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will bring one disaster after another on them. I will use up all my arrows on them.

Good News Translation
"'I will bring on them endless disasters and use all my arrows against them.

International Standard Version
I'll bury them in misfortunes and bring them to an end with my arrows.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them;

Literal Standard Version
I heap calamities on them, | I consume My arrows on them.

Majority Standard Bible
I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them.

New American Bible
I will heap evils upon them and exhaust all my arrows against them:

NET Bible
I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

New Revised Standard Version
I will heap disasters upon them, spend my arrows against them:

New Heart English Bible
"I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them.

World English Bible
“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

Young's Literal Translation
I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them.

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Context
The Song of Moses
22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains. 23I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend My arrows against them. 24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:21
and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh--the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders."

2 Samuel 22:15
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

Psalm 18:14
He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

Psalm 45:5
Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king's foes; the nations fall beneath your feet.


Treasury of Scripture

I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them.

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 26:18,24
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins…

Isaiah 24:17,18
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth…

spend

Psalm 7:12,13
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready…

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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Deuteronomy 32
1. Moses' song, which sets forth God's mercy and vengeance
46. He exhorts them to set their hearts upon it
48. God sends him up to mount Nebo to see the land, and to die














(23) Mischiefs.--Literally, ills. Comp. Ezekiel 5:16 : "I will send upon them the evil arrows of famine . . . I will increase the famine upon them."

Verse 23. - I will spend mine arrows upon them; I will inflict on them so many calamities that none shall remain. The evils sent on men by God are represented as arrows shot on them from above. (Cf. ver. 42; Job 6:4; Psalm 7:13; Psalm 38:2; Psalm 45:5; Psalm 58:7; Zechariah 9:14; Homer, 'Iliad,' 1:45, etc.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will heap
אַסְפֶּ֥ה (’as·peh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5595: To sweep or snatch away, catch up

disasters
רָע֑וֹת (rā·‘ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

upon them;
עָלֵ֖ימוֹ (‘ā·lê·mōw)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

I will spend
אֲכַלֶּה־ (’ă·ḵal·leh-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

My arrows
חִצַּ֖י (ḥiṣ·ṣay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2671: A piercer, an arrow, a wound, thunderbolt, the shaft of a, spear

against them.
בָּֽם׃ (bām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew


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