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23 I will pile up disasters for them.
I will use up all my arrows on them.
24 They will be sucked dry by hunger and burned up by fever.
I will send them bitter destruction.
Wild animals will sink their teeth into them
    with the burning venom of snakes that crawl in the dust.
25 In the street the sword will take away their children.
Inside the houses terror will fill young man and
    young woman alike,
the nursing child, together with the gray-haired old man.

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23 “I will heap calamities(A) on them
    and spend my arrows(B) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(C) against them,
    consuming pestilence(D) and deadly plague;(E)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(F)
    the venom of vipers(G) that glide in the dust.(H)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(I) will reign.(J)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(K)

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