Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Burning heat
Serpents
General references
Bible References
Burnt
Deuteronomy 28:53
Because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade, you will eat the flesh of your own children, the sons and daughters, whom Jehovah your God has given you.
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go to the field, I see those killed because of war. If I go to the city, I see those sick because of famine. Prophets and priests wander through a land they have not heard of.'
Lamentations 4:4
The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink. The young children cry out for bread, and no man gives it to them.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from the need of food.
Burning heat
Psalm 18:12
Out of the brightness in front of him, those rain clouds passed by with hailstones and lightning.
Psalm 120:4
He will give you a warrior's sharpened arrows and red-hot coals.
Habakkuk 3:5
Before him go the pestilence, and fiery bolts go forth at his feet.
The teeth
Leviticus 26:22
I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children. They will destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted.
Jeremiah 15:3
I will appoint over them four kinds of punishment, declares Jehovah. I will send swords to kill, dogs to drag away, and birds of the air and animals of the earth to devour and destroy.
Jeremiah 16:4
They will die of lethal diseases. They will not be mourned or buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground and die by sword and famine (war and starvation). Their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.
Ezekiel 5:17
I will send famine and wild animals against you. They will rob you of your children. I will send plagues, violence, and wars to kill you. I, Jehovah, have spoken!'
Ezekiel 14:15
If I send wild animals through that country and they make it childless and turn it into such a wasteland that no one travels through it because of the animals.
Serpents
Genesis 3:14
So Jehovah God said to the serpent: Because you have done this you are cursed above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.
Genesis 49:15
When he sees that his resting place is good and that the land is pleasant, he will bend his back to the burden and will become a slave laborer.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the bull, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on my entire holy mountain, Jehovah proclaims.
Amos 9:3
Though they hide on top of Mount Carmel I will search and find them and take them from there. Though they hide from my sight on the bottom of the sea I will command the serpent to bite them.
General references
Jeremiah 48:43
Fear, deep pits, and traps wait for you people of Moab,' says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:15
Outside are swords and inside are plagues and famines. He who is in a field will die in battle. He who is in the city will be devoured by famines and plagues.