SEV Biblia, Chapter 32:24
Consumidos serán de hambre, y comidos de fiebre ardiente y de talamiento amargo; diente de bestias enviaré también sobre ellos, con veneno de serpientes de la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 32:24
Verse 24. They shall be burnt with hunger] Their land shall be cursed, and famine shall prevail. This is one of the arrows. Burning heat] No showers to cool the atmosphere; or rather boils, blains, and pestilential fevers; this was a second.
Bitter destruction] The plague; this was a third.
Teeth of beasts-with the poison of serpents] The beast of the field should multiply upon and destroy them; this was a fourth: and poisonous serpents, infesting all their steps, and whose mortal bite should produce the utmost anguish, were to be a fifth arrow. Added to all these, the sword of their enemies-terror among themselves, ver. 25, and captivity were to complete their ruin, and thus the arrows of God were to be spent upon them. There is a beautiful saying in the Toozuki Teemour, which will serve to illustrate this point, while it exhibits one of the finest metaphors that occurs in any writer, the sacred writers excepted.
"It was once demanded of the fourth Khaleefeh, (Aaly,) on whom be the mercy of the Creator, 'If the canopy of heaven were a BOW; and if the earth were the cord thereof; and if calamities were ARROWS; if mankind were the mark for those arrows; and if Almighty GOD, the tremendous and the glorious, were the unerring ARCHER; to whom could the sons of Adam flee for protection?' The Khaleefeh answered, saying, 'The sons of Adam must flee unto the Lord.'"
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 24. [They shall be] burnt with hunger , etc.] This is the arrow of famine, ( Ezekiel 5:16,17); the force of which is such that it makes the skin black as if burnt, ( Lamentations 5:10); Onkelos paraphrases it, “inflated or swelled with famine,” which is a phrase Josephus makes use of in describing the famine at the siege of Jerusalem. Jarchi observes, that one of their writers interprets the words “hairs of hunger”, because he says that a man that is famishing and pining, his hair grows, and he becomes hairy: this judgment was notorious among the Jews, at the siege of Jerusalem, and was very sore and dreadful: (see Gill on “ Deuteronomy 28:53”): and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction ; with burning fevers, pestilential ones, with the plague, the arrow of the Lord that flies by day, the pestilence that walks in darkness, and the destruction that wastes at noonday, ( Psalm 91:5,6); and which also raged at the siege of Jerusalem, arising from the stench of dead bodies, which lay in all parts of the city, and is one of the signs of the destruction of it given by our Lord, ( Matthew 24:7,9); I will also send the teeth, of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust ; another of the arrows in the quiver of the Lord of hosts, or of his four judgments, and which he used to threaten the people of the Jews with in case of disobedience, ( Leviticus 26:22). And such of the Jews who fled to deserts, and caves and dens of the earth, for shelter, could not escape falling into the hands of wild beasts, and of meeting with poisonous serpents that go upon their bellies, and feed on the dust of the earth; and besides, when Titus had taken Jerusalem, he disposed of his captives some one way and some another; and, among the rest, many were cast to the wild beasts in the theatre, as Josephus relates f602 ; add to this, that both Rome Pagan, and Roman Papal, are called beasts, ( Revelation 13:1,11); into both whose hands the Jews fell, and from whom they have suffered much; with which in part agrees the Targum of Jerusalem, “the teeth of the four monarchies, which are like to wild beasts, I will send upon them;” and particularly the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it, “and the Greeks, who bite with their teeth like wild beasts, I will send upon them;” but it would have been much better to have interpreted it of the Romans.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 19-25 - The revolt of Israel was described in the foregoing verses, and her follow the resolves of Divine justice as to them. We deceive ourselves if we think that God will be mocked by a faithless people. Sin makes u hateful in the sight of the holy God. See what mischief sin does, an reckon those to be fools that mock at it.
Original Hebrew
מזי 4198 רעב 7458 ולחמי 3898 רשׁף 7565 וקטב 6986 מרירי 4815 ושׁן 8127 בהמת 929 אשׁלח 7971 בם עם 5973 חמת 2534 זחלי 2119 עפר׃ 6083
