Deuteronomy 32:25 — Compare Translations

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From without the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

From without the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the young woman will be killed, the infant and the gray-haired man.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

English EASY 2024

If they go out of their homes, their enemies will kill them. If they stay at home, they will die from fear. Young men and young women will die. Babies and old men will also die.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

In the streets, soldiers will kill them. In their houses, terrible things will happen. Soldiers will kill young men and women. They will kill babies and old people.

Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

War will bring death in the streets; terrors will strike in the homes. Young men and young women will die; neither babies nor old people will be spared.

English God's Word - GW 1995

Foreign wars will kill off their children, and even at home there will be horrors. Young men and young women alike will die as well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the virgin [will be killed], the infant and the gray-haired man.

English KJV 1611

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

English LSB

Outside the sword will bereave, And inside terror— Both choice man and virgin, The nursing baby with the man of gray hair.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant along with the man of gray hair.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

'Outside the sword will bereave, And inside terror--Both young man and virgin, The nursling with the man of gray hair.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

"Snatched away by the sword in the street and by sheer terror at home Shall be the youth and the maiden alike, the nursing babe as well as the hoary old man.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

In the streets their children will be killed with swords. Their homes will be filled with terror. Young men and women will die. Babies and old people will die.

English NIV

In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.

English NKJ 1982

The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

English NLT

Outside, the sword will bring death, and inside, terror will strike both young men and young women, both infants and the aged.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

In the street the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers terror, for young man and woman alike, nursing child and old gray head.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

In the open the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Outside, the enemies' sword—Inside, the plague—Shall terrorize young men and girls alike; The baby nursing at the breast, And aged men.

English Tyndale 1537

Without forth, the sword shall rob them of their children: and within in the chamber, fear: both young men and young women and the sucklings with the men of gray heads.