(24, 25)
“Consumed[8] with hunger, and devoured with pestilence, and bitter destruction —
[8] Or, possibly, “Regaled with hunger, and fed with bread of pestilence and bitter destruction,” &c.
I will also send the tooth of the beasts upon them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Outside the sword bereaveth, 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.” With Deuteronomy 32:25 comp. 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! yea both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.”