Deuteronomy 32:24-25 -

The evils threatened are famine, pestilence, plague, wild beasts, poisonous reptiles, and war. They shall be burnt with hunger, etc.; render: Sucked out by hunger, consumed with pestilential heat, and bitter plague; I will send against them the tooth of beasts and the poison of things that crawl in the dust. When hunger, pestilence, and contagious disease had wasted and exhausted them, then God would send on them wild beasts and poisonous reptiles. Shall be burnt . The Hebrew word occurs only here; it is a verbal adjective, meaning, literally, sucked out , i.e. utterly exhausted; LXX ; τηκομένοι λιμῷ . Tooth of beasts and poison of serpents; poetical for ravenous and poisonous animals (cf. Leviticus 26:22 ). Shall destroy; literally, shall make childless, shall bereave, viz. the land which is thought of as a mother whose children were destroyed. The verb is here sensu prsegnanti , shall bereave by destroying, etc. (cf. 1 Samuel 15:23 ; Lamentations 1:20 ; Jeremiah 18:21 ).