#Moses, #Psalmtweet Deuteronomy 32:25-27

Deuteronomy 32:25-27

This reads too like our reality. Psalm 148:12 shares many words with verse 25. Youths in their prime is the same stem as the word for chosen (bkr). There seems to be some escape from the negative since Psalm 148 is part of the final doxology of the Psalter. (Grey-haired is not in the psalm, but rather zqn, the aged.)

Shared words in Psalm 148:12 and Deuteronomy 32:25

I cannot think of a place where the sentiment of verses 26 occurs in the Psalter. Perhaps 106:23 - but the word used is not eradicate, (wbt) but exterminate (wmd). The word for eradicate occurs only 5 times in the Psalms, and in each case it is over and done with. E.g. Psalm 8 - that you might cease enemy and vengeance. It is the same word as Sabbath! Exterminate is used 6 times in the Psalms. It is to destroy rather than cease. 

מִחוּץ֙ תְּשַׁכֶּל־חֶ֔רֶב וּמֵחֲדָרִ֖ים אֵימָ֑ה גַּם־בָּחוּר֙ גַּם־בְּתוּלָ֔ה יוֹנֵ֖ק עִם־אִ֥ישׁ שֵׂיבָֽה ס		25 From the streets, the bereavement of the sword, and from rooms within, horror, both youths in their prime and virgins suckling with the grey-haired.
ch mkux twcl-krb umkdrim aimh gm-bkur gm-btulh ionq ym-aiw wibh s	14 14	m/kvx t/wcl krb vm/kdr\im aim\h gm bkr gm btvlh iv/nq ym aiw wib\h
אָמַ֖רְתִּי אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם אַשְׁבִּ֥יתָה מֵאֱנ֖וֹשׁ זִכְרָֽם ס		26 I said, I will quarter them. I will eradicate from among mortals their remembrance,
cv amrti apaihm awbith manow zcrm s	6 9	amr\ti a/pah\m a/wbt\h m/anvw zcr\m
לוּלֵ֗י כַּ֤עַס אוֹיֵב֙ אָג֔וּר פֶּֽן־יְנַכְּר֖וּ צָרֵ֑ימוֹ פֶּן־יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ יָדֵ֣ינוּ רָ֔מָה וְלֹ֥א יְהוָ֖ה פָּעַ֥ל כָּל־זֹֽאת ס		27 Were it not the grief of the enemy, that I stood in awe of, lest their foes recognize, lest they say, Our hand is high, and Yahweh has not worked all this.
cz luli cys aoib agur pn-incru xrimo pn-iamru idinu rmh vla ihvh pyl cl-zat s	15 17	lvl\i cys ab a/gvr pn i/ncr\v xr\imv pn i/amr\v id\inv rm\h v/la ihvh pyl cl zat