^{23 Ref} I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

^{24 Ref} `They shall be' wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; `It shall destroy' both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.