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Deuteronomy 32:22-23

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32:22 For a fire has been kindled by my anger,

and it burns to lowest Sheol; 1 

it consumes the earth and its produce,

and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

32:23 I will increase their 2  disasters,

I will use up my arrows on them.

1 tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).

2 tn Heb “upon them.”



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